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More than half of people with strong Covid infection are asymptomatic, new figures show:
More than half of people with a strong Covid infection did not report any of the major symptoms, new figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.
This underlines the risk of people spreading the virus without knowing they are infected which is thought to be one of the main ways the coronavirus pandemic has been able to spread so easily around the world.
The ONS said 53 per cent of people with a strong positive, or high viral load, between December and March did not report having any symptoms compared to 47 per cent who did. It excluded patients likely to be at the start of their infection when transmission and symptoms are thought to be less likely.
Fatigue, headache and cough were the most commonly reported symptoms amongst people who had a strong positive test for Covid-19.
[...] "Around half of those we tested did not report any symptoms even whilst having high levels of the virus present in their body. This underlines that people in the community may unknowingly have the virus and potentially transmit it to others."
(Score: -1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 09 2021, @02:34AM (6 children)
The vaccine does not stop you from contracting or transmitting the virus. It's not that kind of vaccine.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by https on Friday April 09 2021, @05:32AM (3 children)
There is exactly zero reason to trust anything from you.
It does exactly that. [nbcnews.com]
It bears repeating: you have murder in your heart. You contribute (with lies) towards a world with more people dying untimely deaths.
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @10:04AM
Damn. I don't think I've ever seen or heard someone get called out like this, without it being exaggeration. Just... damn. True, and cold, but that's fitting.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:54PM
If the same type of study was about a vitamin you'd call it observational and unreliable. Instead it is "real world data" and you take it as fact.
Pfizer's marketing has really done a number on you.
(Score: 2) by dak664 on Friday April 09 2021, @02:27PM
Well it's NBC and the quote is "real-world data from Israel suggests that their Covid-19 vaccine is 94 percent effective in preventing asymptomatic infections, meaning the vaccine could significantly reduce transmission."
Whatever they did there, it isn't science.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 09 2021, @03:13PM
Most things risk management things we do, reduce risk, they don't stop it. Here, these vaccines would reduce the contracting and thus, transmitting of the covid virus (well, covered strains that is). Enough people get immunity from either vaccines or having the disease and we can stop it for real.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:23AM
Is that before or after you guzzled a bunch of hydroxychloroquine?