My new piece looks at COVID-19, asymptomatic spread, and why you still should isolate after receiving a positive test despite the myths spreading online
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The 10M participant Wuhan study showed ZERO asymptomatic spread. (It doesn't rule out presymptomatic spread, though.)
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Replying to @LukeDashjr @MackayIM and
That's not at all true. All of the cases were asymptomatic...where do you think their disease came from?
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The cases in the study were asymptomatic, and *none* of their household members got it.
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Replying to @LukeDashjr @MackayIM and
And again, given that there were no symptomatic cases in the city where do you think they got it from?
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Then they would have tested positive. Besides, if asymptomatic could only spread asymptomatic... who even cares at that point??
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Replying to @LukeDashjr @MackayIM and
The point is that there must have been asymptomatic spread within the population by definition, not that asymptomatic spread cannot cause symptomatic disease
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But your point doesn't follow. The asymptomatic folks likely got infected by someone symptomatic.
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Who was not identified in the testing of the entire city. So somewhere out there were a bunch of symptomatic people just hanging out, not getting tested
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They didn't do the study until reopening, after all symptomatic cases completed their course
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