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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @01:51AM (3 children)
I really don't believe this asymptomatic carrier bullshit. Most COVID tests administered are about 60% accurate at best? I don't know what kind of severe acute respiratory virus just decides to hop along for a harmless ride in that many people. If you get the cold, you've got the cold, whether mild or strong. you get the flu, you've got the flu, whether mild or strong.
If there is such a thing as a variance in severity of cases, a variance from no symptoms at all, all the way up to death; then, I'd like to know WHY the fuck that happens. What's the mechanism that allows for such a wide variance.
And quit bitching about masks. Masks are security theatre. You think so many people out there are a threat and are to blame; you have a serious problem with your logic circuits. Believe me, I know stupid people are to blame for all sorts of shit. But ya know what else is stupid? Your damn dog. And you don't make that thing wear a mask do ya? Fuck off with your non-logic.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @11:52AM
You could learn a little about medicine and how the human body works if you'd like answers to those questions. You know, instead of sitting here going "I don't understand it, therefore it's a hoax and everyone else is stupid."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Sunday April 11 2021, @05:50AM
OK, here's a hypothetical, somewhat silly, possibility. Suppose there was a very contagious virus whose only effect was to generate peanut proteins. It would make people allergic to peanuts very sick or even dead, yet everybody else who was infected would have no symptoms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @08:47PM
The simple and accurate answer to your question is that nobody knows the answer to your question.
The more interesting thing is considering how all eras always felt they were on the cutting edge of knowledge. Yet the eras ahead of them invariably look at the eras prior as riled in ignorance sustained in part by hubris; an excess of arrogance in the veracity of knowledge of the time driven by consensus. We will not be an exception.