Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
by rimliu on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:51AM
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I am not sure science is clear about "you can spread the disease even without having symptoms". I've seen a couple back and forth arguments but nothing conclusive.
Also, 15 days to get symptoms is an extreme outlier. Median is around 5 days.
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Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
by scoutt on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:10AM
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> science is clear about
Have you read OP's article, and what is about?
Anyway, being able to spread without or very mild symptoms is the main thing of this disease, and this is why it can saturate hospitals in no time. Otherwise, if you are just contagious when in bed and with fever, the spread will be lower.
> 15 days
I said 'up to'. And most countries use 15 days to measure quarantine effects. In Italy we had a very high peak (~5K infections/day), and because of those measures (and some good sense) we managed to lower it to 200/day, totaling 13K infected.