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Interesting that the infectiousness of asymptomatic patients increased markedly during the omicron wave. Perhaps that’s why it was able to spread so quickly.
by WantonQuantum 3y ago
Interesting that the infectiousness of asymptomatic patients increased markedly during the omicron wave. Perhaps that’s why it was able to spread so quickly.
- graderjs 3y agoYeah: For the majority of the pandemic only 4% of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive patients were shown to be infectious. (During the Omicron wave, the percentage peaked at about 25%.) Also, this: “The probability of a kid in class who is not sick actually being infectious is very low,” Dr Ralph Tayyar said. Think about it this way: even if every single student in a school without symptoms was infected, 96 percent of them still weren’t capable of transmitting to others. Yet, of course, most people without symptoms are not infected. Moreover, just because 4 percent were technically capable of infecting others does not mean that in actuality they had sufficient amount of replicating virus to do so. We are talking about a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup.
- WantonQuantum 3y agoYep, that 4% to 25% jump is what I was talking about. I’m no virologist but it seems like 6x likelihood of infection would lead to it spreading faster, which of course it did but I don’t know if that was the reason.