Posted on 03/17/2021 11:44:30 AM PDT by george76
Up to 16 million people in the United States may have had undiagnosed, asymptomatic COVID-19 as of September 2020 -- twice as many as previously estimated -- an analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open reported.
Just under 7% of about 62,000 people in the United States with no symptoms of infection tested in the study had antibodies against the virus, the data showed..
Antibodies are cells produced by the immune system to fight off infection, and their presence in blood suggests that people either are battling the virus or were recently.
The nearly 16 million asymptomatic cases is more than twice the number of confirmed cases -- about 7.5 million -- reported in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the end of September..
As of September, the scope of the pandemic was about double the number of reported cases," study co-author Dr. Robert L. Stout told UPI in an email.
"The primary means of transmission of this virus is the asymptomatic population -- the patient [who] is unaware of their infectious status and is therefore at risk of unknowing spreading the virus," said Stout, a researcher with Lenexa, Kansas-based Clinical Reference Laboratory. The company that specializes in health testing for life insurance applicants.
Since the start of the pandemic last March, public health officials and researchers have suggested that the number of cases and deaths linked with the virus, both in the United States and globally, may be undercounted.
This is due to the number of infected people who may experience no symptoms, believed to be up to 80% of those with the virus, experts say.
For this study, Stout and his colleagues tested 61,190 life insurance applicants for antibodies to the coronavirus in September, using blood samples collected as part of the application process.
None of the applicants reported having symptoms of COVID-19. Just under 4,100, or 6.7%, tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, and about 56% of them were male, researchers said...
Most of those who tested positive for antibodies were in their late 30s or early 40s, which researchers say is significant given that younger people are believed to be at lower risk for serious illness, or symptoms, from COVID-19.
These people may be unknowingly driving spread of the virus, the researchers said.
"Quite simply ... they think that everything is fine and continue to go about their normal activities," Stout said.
"Some practice recommended CDC guidelines in public places while some may not," he said.
Asymptomatic transmission of covid did not occur at all, study of 10 million people finds.. The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3919319/posts
And do we cut that number by 75% due to false positives?
That last line is a bald-faced lie. Some "Researcher" with a degree in what?
The belief that asymptomatic people can spread or even the principal driver of spreading CV is the basis of all the pandemic mitigation protocols (masking, social distancing, lockdowns, etc.). If the powers that be admit asymptomatic spread isn’t a factor, then they also have to admit they screwed up royally. Anyone expect the politicians to do so?
That would make the death rate miniscule. Mask up!
“The primary means of transmission of this virus is the asymptomatic population — the patient [who] is unaware of their infectious status and is therefore at risk of unknowing spreading the virus,” said Stout, a researcher with Lenexa, Kansas-based Clinical Reference Laboratory. The company that specializes in health testing for life insurance applicants.
I remember Fauci saying that it was exceedingly rare for someone that is asymptomatic to transfer the virus. Which one of these guys is a liar?
I am sure that most of these undiagnosed cases died. Oh wait.....
WOOHOO....we’re twice as close to herd immunity!
Fauxcy, CDC, NIH, FDA are all guilty of dereliction of duty in not providing timely Science regarding the Pandemic in any number of ways.
Starting, Big Time, with test development and field use of same.
But only 80 million people voted for Biden, so logic dictates there must be at least three times more dead people that that
So....
TWICE as many people had the virus than they let on?
Doesn’t that lower the fatality rate substantially??? -Which was already LESS than 1%...
But... we’re supposed to be frightened for our lives still, right?
“as of September 2020”\
Seems to me there should br much more recent info.
Both the Austrians and Italians concluded this antibody ratio around six months ago....nothing new.
No proof, and in fact more than one peer reviewed study confirmed that asymptomatic cases are not major avenues of infection. Infection requires some level of viral load, close contact exposure, and some period of time. One of the reasons asymptomatic persons are asymptomatic is the viral load they received and/or the viral load they have due to their own antibodies is generally too weak to issue a significant infectious viral load to others. When and if they develop symptoms (which MOST due not) they may be infectious to others.
I don’t trust any of this. Studies are so crooked now.
Give the teachers the shot. Open the damn schools. No masks. No 6 ft...or is it 3 now?
My thought exactly!
96% of nearly 3,300 inmates in four state prisons lack symptoms but tested positive for coronavirus..
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winnah!
ConservaTexan nailed it!
So, are those of us who have felt fine this whole time now considered Typhoid Marys who should politely brick ourselves up in the wall, or what?
/the mask of Amontillado
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