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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @07:32PM (6 children)
Neither is death by being crushed by a bus, pinned between traincars, being stabbed or shot, being blown to pieces by a missile, falling from great heights, the various cancers caused by the multitude of manmade and man introduced chemicals, a heart attack, or being forced to carry a rancidifying sack of skin enveloping a shit factory to some opaque probablistically designated finish line. Death by its nature is inhumane, indiscriminate, and if not painful for the sufferer at least those around them but it is one of the few inexorable and definitive constants we face as the living. And having come upon death, the suffering and necessarily the contemplation of it ceases. For all those dying, there is more world for the living. How many of the dead would be respected if they selfishly spake unto the world of the living - as would a despot, demanding their pitiable allotment be fully returned? None, I'm sure, after the warm embrace of the serenity of death has made them supplicant to perfect ceaseless quietude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @05:59AM (1 child)
...what? Is this your overly-wordy way of saying "death by old age"?
strongly suspecting you just stole most of this post from some book
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @07:09AM
That's a very nice compliment.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @11:48AM (3 children)
Have you talked to many dead people?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday April 10 2021, @03:28PM
Most people have talked to a dead person at some point in their lives, and almost everyone can do it. It's not remarkable in the slightest.
Getting a reply from them, on the other hand ...
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @05:29PM (1 child)
Nah, but you can ax the living about dying:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634122/ [nih.gov]
https://sprc.org/scope/age [sprc.org]
And that's without the countless masses of people traipsing on the razor's edge. The real question I think, is how many people do you know that are living that would turn back death once they'd arrived?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:24AM
I have very very limited experience with this, nothing more than several years' study of NDEs and (supposed...) mediums, and what appeared to be a conversation with a dead grandfather with the assistance of one of them. That's an extremely small sample size, not enough to generalize from, and almost entirely anecdotal. None of them seem to want to come back, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who would who simply aren't making contact.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...