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How many are symptomatic?

• buhhh 6y ago
  asymptomatic =/= free of harm caused by the virus
  • matz1 6y ago
    ok then how many are positive but free or minimal of harm caused by the virus ?
  • jiveturkey 6y ago
    The question was 'symptomatic'. Lest you think it's a typo, the number of symptomatic tests is a critical number to know. It's not about whether the individuals beings tested have been harmed, it's about whether testing shows us the infection rate in the population or not. If 100% of tests were of symptomatic patients, the numbers tell us almost nothing.
• kpennell 6y ago
  In some Italian villages that tested extensively, they found 50-70% asymptomatic https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-asymptomatic/ https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...