The chance you have COVID without symptoms is growing, the study indicates
Recent research has shown that even more patients have COVID symptoms than we thought.
The new coronavirus is proven to be an elusive enemy for the American coast on coast for nearly six months. Part of this is due to pure speed and ease to which the virus can spread, mainly by droplets from the nose or mouth of a contagious person. However, so muchPatients never really develop symptoms, Which makes it more likely that they will continue to go to other audiences and accidentally infected. And according to recent research, even more people can be asymptomatic COVID cases than originally thought. A new study, which used the data of two surveys in Italy, revealed thatMore than 40 percent of coronavirus patients can be asymptomatic.
The study was published in the journalNature In June, and the results of the Italian city of Vò-showed that 42.5 percent of patients who were positive testedIn the end has never shown no symptoms virus.
The results fall closely online with another on recent study of South Korea. According to these results, not only areAbout 30 percent of asymptomatic patientsBut patients who do not have symptoms still wear and lose the same amount of viruses as those who are symptomatic. "TheyDo not look different from the symptomatic population, "Marta Gaglia, Virologist at Tufts University, saidThe New York Timescommenting on the study. "There is no real reason to believe a priori they would transmit differently. »
The two sets of results support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)"Best estimate" for asymptomatic cases. In May, the CDC created five "COVID-19 in the event of a Pandemic Planning Scenarios," using the data to estimate a range of possible COVID trajectories in the United States in at that time, the "best estimate" The CDC was that35 percent of the cases were asymptomatic COVID. In July, the CDC updated their forecasts using new data until June 29: now, their "better estimate" is that 40 percent of all peopleinfected by the coronavirus do not show any sign or symptoms of a notable 5 percent increase that could jump again if the Italian conclusions study are an indication.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been taken over by the medical community for their "overall estimate" onasymptomatic propagation, Saying that as little as 16 percent ofCovid-19 patients around the world are asymptomatic. However, they accuse their lower figures on studies that have not followed with patients who have never developed symptoms after a positive test.
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However, the experts point out that it is the absence of common symptoms that follow the social distance and guidelines covering the face all the more important. "You do not realize, probably innocently, that you inadvertently spread the epidemic,"Anthony Fauci, MD, says Marketwatch in early August. "You become part of the problem because even if yoube infected without symptomsIt is likely that you will infect someone else. And to learn more about what's going on when youto do Feeling coronavirus, seeIf your symptoms appear in this order, you probably have COVID, the study says.
