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> we know asymptomatic people can be contagious for days Although it is technically correct, this is the least contagious way. AFAIK most sick people were near

• selimthegrim 7y ago
  Your link is giving a 404. (It looks like it's pasted in twice.) And with regard to the cruise ships, see Question 13 of your linked FAQ. It seems false positives are a real thing [1] but can we afford even one asymptomatic infected individual that might be a super spreader? In shifting away from containment are we just accepting these? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22566923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22566923
  • harrier 7y ago
    His link had the url twice concatenated. If you remove that part then it works [1]. Here is a google translation of the relevant section: > Although the possibility of transmission from an asymptomatic person has been reported （https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468） https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468）, little is known on how Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads from person to person. Generally speaking, with most respiratory viruses, people are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission... That CDC link [2] states that: > People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest). Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this occurring with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. [1] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryou/dengue_fever_qa_00014.html#Q2 https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryo... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...
    • selimthegrim 7y ago
      As to my second point, the Japanese are not letting people disembark cruise ships willy-nilly without being tested as per that link