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Re:Workers are calling out sick in droves by nradov on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:20PM (#29983369)
One case that you know of. Unless your entire friend circle has all been getting weekly tests since February 2020 it's likely that some have had asymptomatic infections. The CDC estimated that only about a quarter of infections were officially counted as "cases".

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Re:Workers are calling out sick in droves by brimble on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:47PM (#29983831)
Odds of having it pass through a whole household without a trace would be lower, of course, but you are right that some of them/us may have had asymptomatic infections earlier on.

About half have had symptomatic infections, all from different sources (not due to us getting together), in the past couple weeks. Everyone in the house, even little kids, are getting sick (fever, at least, every time), in every single case so far (unless, again, some of us have had it pass through and no-one in the house had symptoms).

If that 1/4 symptomatic rate holds for omicron (I'm doubting it, but maybe) then something like 3-4% of the country's contracting it per day. Even if not, then it's still somewhere around 1%/day, minimum.

Re:Workers are calling out sick in droves by webmaven on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:28PM (#29984449)
One thing I haven't seen data on is whether Omicron's milder symptoms also means that a higher percentage of infections are asymptomatic (and undetected).