SARS-CoV-2 transmission from people without COVID-19 symptoms
2021-01-07
(Press-News.org) What The Study Did: Under a range of assumptions of presymptomatic transmission and transmission from individuals with infection who never develop symptoms, the model presented here estimated that more than half of transmission comes from asymptomatic individuals.
Author: Jay C. Butler, M.D., of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.35057)
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