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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by selimthegrim on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:29PM (#22563535)
The surgeon general just gave a press conference in Baton Rouge with the governor of Louisiana saying we should only test people (or prioritize testing of) people with symptoms. This when we know asymptomatic people can be contagious for days.

The Port of New Orleans is testing embarking cruise ship passengers but not disembarking (!) ones. This when we have community spread in the parish already and have gone from 1 to 6 to 11 cases this week alone.

Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by 2rsf on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:59AM (#22565785)
> we know asymptomatic people can be contagious for days

Although it is technically correct, this is the least contagious way. AFAIK most sick people were near sick persons for a considerable amount of time.

[0] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryo...

Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by selimthegrim on Friday March 13, 2020 @09:57AM (#22567258)
Your link is giving a 404. (It looks like it's pasted in twice.) And with regard to the cruise ships, see Question 13 of your linked FAQ.

It seems false positives are a real thing [1] but can we afford even one asymptomatic infected individual that might be a super spreader? In shifting away from containment are we just accepting these?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22566923

Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by harrier on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:49AM (#22568205)
His link had the url twice concatenated. If you remove that part then it works [1]. Here is a google translation of the relevant section:

> Although the possibility of transmission from an asymptomatic person has been reported (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468), little is known on how Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads from person to person. Generally speaking, with most respiratory viruses, people are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...

That CDC link [2] states that:

> People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest). Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this occurring with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

[1] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryo...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...

Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by selimthegrim on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:51AM (#22568225)
As to my second point, the Japanese are not letting people disembark cruise ships willy-nilly without being tested as per that link