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> asymptomatic has such a miniscule amount of virus in their system that they're not infectious. https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/01/11/asymptomati

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• slumdev 6y ago
  > the researchers presumed that 30% of individuals who contract the new coronavirus never develop symptoms but remain 75% as infectious as those who do develop symptoms. They made up some numbers and played with the math. It's conjecture, not research.
  • f430 6y ago
    > They made up some numbers and played with the math. It's conjecture, not research. Do you know what conjecture means?
    • slumdev 6y ago
      The second definition from Wiktionary is most appropriate for this situation: > (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis. There is no evidence that asymptomatic people are 75% as infectious as symptomatic people. The 75% number was fabricated to allow them to build a model. Asymptomatic people could be 0% as infectious as symptomatic people. Or, by some unexpected turn of fate, they could be 200% as infectious as symptomatic people. The evidence doesn't exist. Your link even mentions another scientist who believes that asymptomatic people are only 35% as infectious.