But these mild patients are still vectors and go farther and evade all screening, right? 
It means current measures for containment are doomed to fail.
They have failed.https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1230471521812074496 …
I'm stunned by how dismissive people are being over this. "People who sneeze are more contagious than people who don't sneeze" is obviously not cause for treating large numbers of asymptomatic/mild cases as a *good* thing!
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Devil's Advocate: It was increasingly clear that this was going pandemic even with the early Chinese numbers. In that case, more asymptomatic -> fewer deaths and also a faster spread, which might help prevent the recession.
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If COVID-19 has the ~2% mortality rate currently assumed and infects the same percentage of the population as the 1918 Spanish flu did, in absolute numbers it will kill roughly the same number of people and be one of the deadliest events on the whole of the human timeline
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