Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China

Nature Communications ^ | November 20, 2020 | Shiyi Cao et al.

[absalom01]

Virus cultures were negative for all asymptomatic positive and repositive cases, indicating no “viable virus” in positive cases detected in this study.

All asymptomatic positive cases, repositive cases and their close contacts were isolated for at least 2 weeks until the results of nucleic acid testing were negative. None of detected positive cases or their close contacts became symptomatic or newly confirmed with COVID-19 during the isolation period. In this screening programme, single and mixed testing was performed, respectively, for 76.7% and 23.3% of the collected samples. The asymptomatic positive rates were 0.321 (95% CI 0.282–0.364)/10,000 and 0.243 (95% CI 0.183–0.315)/10,000, respectively.

The 300 asymptomatic positive persons aged from 10 to 89 years, included 132 males (0.256/10,000) and 168 females (0.355/10,000). The asymptomatic positive rate was the lowest in children or adolescents aged 17 and below (0.124/10,000), and the highest among the elderly aged 60 years and above (0.442/10,000) (Table 1). The asymptomatic positive rate in females (0.355/10,000) was higher than that in males (0.256/10,000).

[absalom01]

Oh. TL;dr Asymptomatic spread is not a thing.

[mtrott]

Yes, I saw this data yesterday. It seems that all these masking mandates are pointless, useless, and based on incorrect data.

[mtrott]

I mean for healthy people there is no basis for wearing masks.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[RedMominBlueState]

Wouldn’t surprise me. We get lied to every day. And now the WHO is saying we’ll have to wear masks, be surveilled and social distance even with a vaccine. These mitigation techniques have almost nothing to do with the virus and everything to do with controlling the population. All part of the plan to use covid to bring about “The Great reset” aka UN Agenda 2030. Scary stuff. We must rise up now.

[StAnDeliver]

It's interesting that the fevered (lol) response in Shanghai's airport strongly suggests one of two things or both:

• China is short of herd immunity
• Their engineered virus with the HIV shell has the potential to reinfect and reinfect and reinfect people with diminishing returns YET the maximizing the potency to kill off "useless eaters" >70.

[absalom01]

Exactly.

Hey, it was worth a shot early on, but at this point it’s obviously not about public heath, it’s about power.

[absalom01]

I certainly wouldn’t put it past the CCP to take that approach with their own people.

My bet, though, is that they’re too inept to have done this deliberately, though they have managed to turn this to their economic and political advantage rather deftly.

[budj]

You can't fool me:

“Medical researchers have discovered a new disease
that has no symptoms.
It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure.
Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.”
— George Carlin

[moovova]

“You bend over. We test blood."

[Nifster]

Never has been

It is known as a false positive which 30% of tests produce

[blueplum]

LOL - a report from a May study focused only on Wuhan? “The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.” Xi is reaching hard.

300 in 10MM means they never got close to their stated claim of ‘zero’. And 3,000 in 100M is enough to keep the spread going.

How many phones have been de-activated since the first count? Are they running a bit low on handgun ammo or old rural farmers? the CCP should get an Emmy for reaching Baghdad Bob levels of slight of hand.