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posted by martyb on Friday April 09 2021, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the hidden-in-plain-sight dept.

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."


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @09:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @09:46PM (#1135514)

    "scared man-children murdering minority groups"

    What the fuck are you talking about, you dumb Neo-bolshevik's bitch? Noone is murdering "minority" groups, you brainwashed retard. Monkey hybrids attack everyone, especially Asians. Stray Mongoloid dogs are pouring through the southern border and whites are busy praying to Jewsus and con artist politicians to do something about it, all while the Talmudic Jew media brainwashes morons like you into thinking Whitey is to blame. You wouldn't have food, clothes, running water, transportation, knowledge of the modern world, anything without White inventiveness. You will miss us if the Jews are successful in replacing us with dumbed-down mud people and you idiots starve to death in the crumbling infrastructure Whites built.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:25AM (#1135552)

    Sounds like you have trump's cock loged in your brain, still working on that fine motor mouth control? Ended up with some mushroom peen up da nose?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @06:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @06:03AM (#1135624)

    when this is what you post when trying to convince someone you *aren't* crazy