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This is one of those situations where the overlap between colloquial and technical usage can cause confusion when one leaks into the other. In colloquial usage
by frobozz 6y ago
This is one of those situations where the overlap between colloquial and technical usage can cause confusion when one leaks into the other.
In colloquial usage, asymptomatic encompasses presymptomatic. In technical usage, they are different.
If you develop symptoms, then when you were a carrier before then, you were presymptomatic, rather than asymptomatic.