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There have been quite a few cases covered in the press about patients which carried the virus but didn't show any symptoms. Most recently: https://asia.nikkei.c
by jcfrei 7y ago
There have been quite a few cases covered in the press about patients which carried the virus but didn't show any symptoms. Most recently: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus-outbreak/Three-Japanese-evacuees-from-Wuhan-test-positive-for-coronavirus https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus-outbreak/Three...
- btilly 7y agoThanks. If they in fact can't transmit, then this is OK. If they can or, even worse, have a long latency period and will show symptoms in 2 weeks, that is very, very scary. Our best tool for diseases like this is contact tracing. And asymptomatic carriers make that very hard. (Useless trivia, the first documented asymptomatic carrier who was infectious was a short order cook named Mary Mallon. She is better known as Typhoid Mary.)
- underwater 7y agoShe wasn't a short order cook, she cooked for a number of families.
- btilly 7y agoShe was both. When she was first identified, she cooked for a number of families. The outbreak that got her put away for life was due to working as a cook at Sloane Hospital for Women. I cannot immediately find record of her being a short order cook specifically. However that is my recollection from https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Trust-Collapse-Global-Public/dp/0786884401 https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Trust-Collapse-Global-Public...
- Zod666 7y agoThere's a good docu on her story. It might be on YouTube.