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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:24AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:24AM (#1135902) Journal

    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.

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