Undiagnosed Coronavirus Cases Are Fueling The Pandemic, Study Finds
People navigate through Miami International Airport amid coronavirus fears on Sunday.
In mid-January throughout China, very few of the people who were infected — just 14% — were actually diagnosed by a doctor, researchers estimated. That means that 86% of cases were walking around unrecognized by the health care system. Outside experts said the study further emphasizes the need for catching the milder cases that can drive an epidemic. Testing in the US has been significantly delayed due to the CDC providing glitchy lab equipment and initially setting strict criteria for who could get tested, critics say.
However, there isn’t much evidence to show that people who never show any symptoms are spreading the coronavirus, Tara Smith, an epidemiologist at Kent State University who wasn’t involved with the analysis, told BuzzFeed News. “What I have seen evidence of are people who are still incubating the virus but do not have symptoms yet but are potentially spreading the virus,” Smith said by email.
“Just because you or I might get an infection from somebody who’s mildly asymptomatic, it doesn’t mean we ourselves won’t wind up in the ICU,” Shaman said.
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