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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by wool_gather on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:23PM (#22621952)
There are people getting sick without having been in contact with other people who are sick. How else would that happen?

"Most contagious when symptomatic" is not even remotely the same thing as "not contagious unless symptomatic". We also don't have a good picture of what symptoms look like aside from the most serious cases.

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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by moises_silva on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:50AM (#22626270)
How would you possibly know reliably they were not in contact with anyone sick?, particularly when being in contact means touching any surfaces where the virus landed hours or it seems even days ago
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