#Asymptomatic

I'm seeing an increasing phenomenon of trolling types asking, "But how many are asymptomatic?" in response to news of Covid outbreaks on university campuses & elsewhere. They seem to think

Bit more detail on the Asymptomatic cases. NHC says 14 asymptomatic patients developed symptoms as of April 9, while another 40 were released from quarantine. From March 31 and April

So question. I'm obviously no epidemiologist, but re studies purporting to show that there's already a high % of asymptomatic seropositive people: if true, how do you explain catastrophic outbreaks

Why is it imp to find asymptomatic carriers of the virus?"Because of asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus, we’re going to need a lot more testing and have public health officials

How many #COVID19 cases are asymptomatic? The *incorrect* 40% figure keeps being repeated (such as claim below in 21 Oct NEJM Perspective), but best estimates are now closer to 17%

Barry Cooke, M.Sc, Ph.D

Asymptomatic spread in a single person was suspected as early as Jan 30, but that wasn't peer review published until Mar 5, and it was just one patient. This clarifies

As the thread notes, China says 2/3 of asymptomatic cases develop symptoms and get reclassified as confirmed cases. But Hubei has reported 303 new such cases but just 2 such

Parler: @PaulSchmehl #2020GOPLandslide

Thread: This CDC report shows that people who are asymptomatic can spread the infection and later become symptomatic. So testing only symptomatic persons misses at least half the cases of

Carl T. Bergstrom

1. Out today, an important study about the characteristics of 37 asymptomatic COVID-19 infections from Wuhan. Patients were identified by screening close contacts of the cases; the authors made every

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

BREAKING: New study shows NY COVID-19 positive rate may be 15%.87% asymptomatic.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316 First of all apologies for the caveats. One study. Pregnant women only. A point in time. Only in

Joshua C. Doloff

OMG. Who sent this thing, The Terminator?! (Work just published in @NatureMedicine shows antibody levels decline quickly in 2-3 months across both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.)https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-

Breaking: COVID-19 cases in the Philippines surpass 7,000DOH reports 211 new cases of COVID-19. Total number of cases in the country is now at 7,192.40 new recoveries, 762 total15 new

Manitoba Nurses Union: "Today, MNU can confirm that of the 40 nurses that were asked to self-isolate, some are considered asymptomatic and are being asked to return to work. This

A theory: It has been accepted scientific wisdom that the virus’ R0 is ~2.4 and the CFR between 1-2%. The data and common sense suggest to me that the R0

Carl T. Bergstrom

This is extremely important to keep in mind with respect to that story about how we shouldn't have shut down the country that many, many people may are already be

PM claimed that concern about asymptomatic transmission is hindsight. On March 26 Yvonne Doyle of PHE said this was "a crucial issue", that while the extent of it was still