Title:
COVID-19's silent spread
Author:
Delene Beeland, University of Florida
Published:
Medical Xpress, 14 July 2020
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-covid-silent.html
From the article:
A UF/EPI professor helped develop a model that estimates slightly more than half of COVID-19 transmission is due to people with no symptoms. A third or more of these cases would need to be isolated, in addition to most symptomatic cases, to quell the pandemic.
More than half of COVID-19 transmission is driven by people who show no symptoms, according to new research published on July 6 the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings could directly influence the design of test-and-trace containment policies that aim to lower the rising numbers of infections in the United States.