The biggest breakdown yet of novel coronavirus cases suggests that 80% are mild. Some patients never show symptoms

Business Insider ^ | 02/20/2020 | Morgan McFall-Johnsen

[Jim Noble]

The study also found that infected people could show no symptoms at all — that was the case for 1.2% of the patients

Key language: 1.2% OF THE PATIENTS. Most infected people who are asymptomatic ARE PROBABLY NOT PATIENTS, so asymptomatic infections are probably being undercounted.

[null and void]

Yup!

[ScottfromNJ]

“About 80% of novel coronavirus cases are mild”

The first wave of the Spanish flu was pretty much the same.

[ptsal]

I wonder what the writer meant....

   while some never show no symptoms

[WildHighlander57]

If it’s mild, then why the drastic quarantines?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If it’s mild, then why the drastic quarantines?

Because it is SUPER INFECTIOUS, 10 Times more contagious than the flu and still twice more fatal.

[21twelve]

“Are they contagious even when asymptomatic?”

Yes. (Chinese gal infecting Germans is one example)

So having 50% of the folks as “Typhoid Mary” is not a good thing.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Jim Noble :" Key language: 1.2% OF THE PATIENTS.
Most infected people who are asymptomatic ARE PROBABLY NOT PATIENTS,
so asymptomatic infections are probably being undercounted."

True that !
That "1.2% OF THE PATIENTS" implies that they were seen by a healthcare professional,
and remain undetected as carriers.
Those who are asymptomatic continue to remain in the general population, infecting others.
The situation is further complicated by problems with the testing kits
giving false negative results, according to one recent article,
as high as 70% false reports.

I can appreciate tracking serial contagion running in families,
however, when dealing with asymptomatic virus carriers, trackers would run into a 'dead end'.
At that point, I imagine control and tracking to be very frustrating to researchers.

[Vermont Lt]

He meant that people roam around shedding virus like it’s the job, and business is good.

[SIDENET]

Sounds like Hillary speaking to a black audience.

[DoughtyOne]

Convid-19 Spreadsheet using JHU data

File XLSX

File XLS

Please take not of the drop in reports of new cases. It is Mainland China
related, and is making these questionable numbers from the start, look
even worse.

In the last day or so the leadership of China stated they have done a
a lot of work to end COVID-19, and local Wuhan leaders would be held
responsible for reports of new cases.

[bgill]

In totally unrelated news, deaths from ingrown toenails went off the charts in the provinces.