96% tested asymptomatic

[Loki]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270RX

[jon-nyc]

Wow.

[jon-nyc]

Love to have them give CT scans to a random sample

[Mik]

And follow it up in three weeks to see how many stayed asymptomatic. Any given snapshot in time doesn't mean a great deal by itself if you don't know when the infestation got started. We could end up with a mass epidemic of COPD in a few years.

[Loki]

@jon-nyc said in 96% tested asymptomatic:

Love to have them give CT scans to a random sample

We don’t know how much of the crew of the cruise ship had GGO.

37-48% of GGO disappears in three months. Of course we don’t know about CV patients and much GGO has other long term causes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4630533/

[Ivorythumper]

@Mik I'm curious -- if they test asymptomatically, how long does the virus remain in their system? Until knocked out by a vaccine? If they are asymptomatic, does the immune system kick in or not? Or does the virus just get eradicated in the body over time?

[Mik]

@Ivorythumper I would think the immune system would have to kick in or the virus would simply continue to replicate. But I am not an epidemiologist.

[jon-nyc]

Accuse wouldn’t knock out the virus it would (ideally) stimulate the same immune response the virus would stimulate.

A healthy immune system would respond to the presence of the virus even if the person were symptomatic.