Coronavirus (COVID19) Asymptomatic Carriers – The bad and a possible resolution?
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Posted on March 20, 2020 by Derek Dieter
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While Italy continues to be brutally hit by this unrelenting disease, they have stepped up their efforts in testing in a the northern city of Vò . They are taking on the task of testing everyone in a desperate effort to stop the virus and what they are finding is bad news and a possible resolution that escapes our current expectation. The article states: By some reports, between a half and three-quarters of carriers in Vò, were asymptomatic. https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-mass-testing-experiment-italian-town-covid-19-outbreak-1493183 So what does this mean? While I am by no means an Epidemiologist, it most likely means the virus is way more contagious that we think it is, and that many more people “have it” that previously believed, however these people exhibit no symptoms whatsoever, marking them as “asymptomatic carriers”. How long the virus stays in an asymptomatic carrier is anyone’s guess, but I would venture to say no more than the 21 days as reported being the largest outlier. We can correlate these asymptomatic findings with another article written by Israeli nobel laureate Michael Levitt. The most convincing he cites is that of the Diamond princess. He equates the diamond princess where he states: The Diamond Princess cruise ship represented the worst-case scenario in terms of disease spread, as the close confines of the ship offered optimal conditions for the virus to be passed among those aboard. The population density aboard the ship was the equivalent of trying to cram the whole Israeli population into an area 30 kilometers square. In addition, the ship had a central air conditioning […]
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