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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: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday April 09 2021, @03:49PM (1 child)
.1% and 2.9 million deaths would mean that almost 40% the planet has already caught covid. You sure about those numbers?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday April 10 2021, @06:16PM
If half the victims are asymptomatic that means the number of people who caught it is twice the number reported, at least for young healthy people (the vast majority of the population).
In my state the untrustworthy official government statistics are already well over 10% of the population. I don't think it far fetched that in other countries or other states that count might be higher like the 20% you suggest.