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Silent infections - BostonCard - 03-23-2020

We may finally have an answer, as Iceland basically decided to test its entire population.

https://www.government.is/news/article/2020/03/15/Large-scale-testing-of-general-population-in-Iceland-underway/

and

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-22/one-third-of-coronavirus-cases-may-show-no-symptom-scmp-reports?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=tictoc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tictoc

I'll have to see DeCode's paper and what the final numbers are after they've tested everyone.  But based on wide-scale testing, it looks like between 20% and half of patients who test positive are asymptomatic.  Unfortunately, that is high enough to be a threat (lots of hidden infections) but not so high as to be positive (lots of people who have silently gotten the virus and developed immunity).

Gotta, say SARS-CoV-2 is a real f---er of a virus.

BC

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