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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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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overall it looks like she's propagated an error made in the meta-analysis, the studies that section cites all give higher values for presymptomatic or asymptomatic attack rates, or have the same attack rates as the symptomatic cases, as in the Taiwan study.
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