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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @10:36AM
Well I'm not having any kids but that doesn't mean I want my mom or other old relatives to die tomorrow.
Contraception + education is far more humane and might even be more effective- just compare the birth rates in European countries with the birth rates in "developing nations".
Next compare the global covid-19 death rates with the global birth rates. Covid-19 isn't deadly enough to put a dent in the population - just slow the rate the bulge grows. As this article and other evidence shows lots of people are asymptomatic, they have no problems. So even if we didn't do vaccines, masks, quarantines and everyone went around catching and spreading it, what would happen is eventually most surviving people's immune systems would be able to cope with it AND the virus might even evolve to be less deadly and become merely a nastier "common cold" or two.