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> That does not imply that you only have the disease if you have symptoms. Not the GP, but I've heard their perspective before from others, i.e. in medicine th
by prottog 3y ago
> That does not imply that you only have the disease if you have symptoms.
Not the GP, but I've heard their perspective before from others, i.e. in medicine the symptom is the disease (or that the disease is defined by the symptom). If you have some virus in you that never does anything, you don't have a disease.
- taeric 3y agoSame. I'm not clear on if that is all diseases or not. I'm also still unsure it matters for this discussion. Especially if we don't have a causal understanding of what moves you from not having symptoms to having symptoms.