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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by bamboleo on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:01AM (#25345147)
That’s just word play. I’m asymptotic today, symptomatic tomorrow.

I, asymptotic young person with nCoV 2, am spreading it today. The “yet” part is completely irrelevant to this point in time.

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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by frobozz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:07AM (#25346103)
This is one of those situations where the overlap between colloquial and technical usage can cause confusion when one leaks into the other.

In colloquial usage, asymptomatic encompasses presymptomatic. In technical usage, they are different.

If you develop symptoms, then when you were a carrier before then, you were presymptomatic, rather than asymptomatic.

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