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More Than Half of People With Strong Covid Infection are Asymptomatic, New Figures Show

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

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzard

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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @11:45AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday April 10 2021, @11:45AM (#1135650) Journal

    Pop quiz, Sir Genocides-a-lot! Who do you think contributes more toward pollution: a family of 12 farmers in Ghana, or one trolling dipshit whose name may or may not rhyme with "snafu" sitting behind his computer somewhere and wishing death on said family of Ghanian farmers?

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday April 10 2021, @03:25PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Saturday April 10 2021, @03:25PM (#1135692)

    The good news here is that said family of 12 in Ghana is far less likely to die of Covid than the troll, since Ghana, like most of Africa, has been far more responsible about preventing the spread of Covid-19 than where Soylentils mostly live.

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