Re: Coronavirus: 78% of those testing positive have no symptoms
I remember reading an article at Yahoo online news back in April that reported on a study being done on the virus. The annoying thing about it all is all that I can remember about the article is that i think 15 or maybe 20 people who was tested as being confirmed to have the virus ALL of them showed no physical signs of having the virus, they was not ill, no fever, no coughs, nothing. Then 8-9 days later all but one showed signs of having the virus.
Throughout the months similar reports have come in from other countries where people have been tested as being positive but show no signs. When Italy was hit hard with the virus and there was mass testing of the public, it was noted many were testing positive but had no symptoms. Only then a number of days later did symptoms start to show.
This is what medical experts have been worried about all along, carriers of the virus but showing no signs of having the virus, thus how do they know they are a carrier if they are not tested.
If anyone can remember, in the early days of the virus, there was a massive news article about a British businessman who had flown from Singapore to France then onto a ski resort and everywhere he was going, people were getting sick, then found to have the virus but yet the man, who did come forward when he realised the press were talking about him, he showed no signs of having the virus. At the time the press were calling him a 'super spreader'. I think the man said he eventually got sick 14-18 days later.
So, unless the whole country is tested, the virus is going to be out there for a long time to come.