People who have COVID-19 but aren’t showing any symptoms are much less likely to transmit the virus that causes the disease, researchers have found.
Health officials around the world have warned throughout the pandemic that people who don’t have symptoms could transmit SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 and is also known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
The warnings prompted the imposition of a slew of measures, such as mass testing of people, regardless of whether they had manifestations of the illness.
But the new research, published in PLOS One following peer review, concluded that the secondary attack rate—the primary measure of the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2—was about two-thirds lower from asymptomatic people than those who were experiencing symptoms….