The true numbers of COVID-19 cases in one popular Australian tourism destination might be five to 10 times higher than publicly reported, experts and officials in the state of Queensland have concluded, after the results of a randomised survey released on Feb. 3. The Gold Coast Public Health Unit went door-to-door on the Gold Coast on Jan. 22 collecting PCR tests from what it acknowledged was only a small sample size. The results from 117 households indicated that 20 of the randomly selected people—around 17 percent—tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. Only four of the 20 people who tested positive reported having any symptoms, leading the state government to declare that one in six Gold Coasters may have been positive and living with the virus during the peak of the Omicron wave in January. As a result, Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr. John Gerrard …