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Re:Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine by jhamilton on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:46PM (#23989567)
The virus has a multi-week incubation period, during which you're infectious despite not yet showing symptoms. Even if you never show symptoms, you can still carry and transmit the virus.

Symptoms (or the lack thereof) are not an indicator of whether or not someone has contracted it.

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Re:Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine by refurb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:26PM (#23990008)
Yeah, I know.

OP has stated they've left their home twice in the past 5 months, the last time 4 weeks ago and they just tested positive.

The chance of them being an asymptomatic carrier is actually pretty low, otherwise we wouldn't be doing 14 day quarantines.

Is it possible OP is a rare edge case? Sure. But not likely.

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Re:Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine by Zancarius on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:59PM (#23991533)
> The chance of them being an asymptomatic carrier is actually pretty low

I'm thinking this may be true. Dr. John Campbell has a fantastic video[1] that suggests we may be overlooking one possible symptom in otherwise asymptomatic populations: Skin rashes. That doesn't mean, of course, that everyone gets skin rashes with COVID-19, but it appears that it may be an early clinical feature of the disease even in people who are otherwise spared the worst.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeKDzwhi8nw

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