Re:American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronav...
by lbeltrame on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:48PM
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> their leaders said that “asymptotic transmission is rare” which is a deadly lie
How it is a lie? People talk a lot about the presence of asymptomatic transmission, but:
1. No one knows for sure if completely asymptomatic people are contagious, and the extent of such contagiousness;
2. People equate asymptomatic with presymptomatic, which is a totally different story;
3. The evidence is at best, inconsistent. There is one case report of a non-contagious "asymptomatic" (reading the paper, the symptoms were there, just not the usual ones), and Singapore contact tracing of a number of completely asymptomatic people did not seem to find infected people in contact with them.
Presymptomatic state is a different matter, and it looks more contagious, but again, a lot of it is speculation, because it's really hard to measure.
This transmission is there. The extent of it is not known.
How it is a lie? People talk a lot about the presence of asymptomatic transmission, but:
1. No one knows for sure if completely asymptomatic people are contagious, and the extent of such contagiousness;
2. People equate asymptomatic with presymptomatic, which is a totally different story;
3. The evidence is at best, inconsistent. There is one case report of a non-contagious "asymptomatic" (reading the paper, the symptoms were there, just not the usual ones), and Singapore contact tracing of a number of completely asymptomatic people did not seem to find infected people in contact with them.
Presymptomatic state is a different matter, and it looks more contagious, but again, a lot of it is speculation, because it's really hard to measure.
This transmission is there. The extent of it is not known.