My Substack post about asymptomatic/presymptomatic COVID transmission is up now. About that Asymptomatic Spread...https://georgiboorman.substack.com/p/about-that-asymptomatic-spread?r=2k1wi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter …
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it seems that the meta analysis citing 0.7% as the attack rate for presymptomatics is a sloppy error, a copy and past form the Taiwan study, as it is the same number and the lowest among the studies. The same study has the same attack rate for symptomatic contacts, 0.7%, not 19%!
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this might be because of isolation, mask wearing, lifestyle habits, or very very aggressive contact tracing done early in Taiwan, so, a larger denominator. Also with rates so low in Taiwan less likely to catch Covid off of a traced chain. either way, it's the same number for pre
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