{"id":1496889,"date":"2022-05-30T08:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496889"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:00:03","slug":"study-covid-infected-people-without-symptoms-much-less-likely-to-pass-virus-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-covid-infected-people-without-symptoms-much-less-likely-to-pass-virus-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: COVID-Infected People Without Symptoms Much Less Likely to Pass Virus On"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-covid-infected-people-without-symptoms-much-less-likely-to-pass-virus-on%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>People who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> but aren\u2019t showing any symptoms are much less likely to transmit the virus that causes the disease, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials around the world have warned throughout the pandemic that people who don\u2019t have symptoms could transmit SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 and is also known as\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings prompted the imposition of a slew of measures, such as mass testing of people, regardless of whether they had manifestations of the illness.<\/p>\n<p>But the new research, published <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003987\">in PLOS One<\/a> following peer review,\u00a0concluded that the secondary attack rate\u2014the primary measure of the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2\u2014was\u00a0about two-thirds lower from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-asymptomatic\">asymptomatic<\/a> people than those who were experiencing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>People with asymptomatic infection are \u201cless infectious than those with symptomatic infection,\u201d Nicola Low, an epidemiologist with the Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Bern, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers included scientists from France, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and the United Kingdom. They updated a study they initially released that was only based on studies published in April 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3322404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/04\/22\/2020-04-21T002656Z_1_LYNXMPEG3K012_RTROPTP_4_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CALIFORNIA-TESTING-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3322404\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/04\/22\/2020-04-21T002656Z_1_LYNXMPEG3K012_RTROPTP_4_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CALIFORNIA-TESTING-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Test in Bolinas\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Medical professionals conduct tests for COVID-19 in Bolinas, Calif., on April 20, 2020. (Kate Munsch\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>The updated research was based on\u00a0130 studies published between then and July 2021. The studies analyzed 28,246 people who tested positive for COVID-19, of whom nearly 12,000 experienced an infection but no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, fatigue, loss of taste or smell, sore threat, headache, diarrhea, and aches and pains.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also estimated that a higher proportion of infections trigger symptoms, with asymptomatic infections consisting a share as low as 14 percent of infections in the studies reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>However, while it is clear that asymptomatic infections don\u2019t cause as much transmission as symptomatic ones, it is difficult to ascertain the true number of asymptomatic infections, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>They said that future studies examining asymptomatic COVID-19 infections should focus on whether there are differences across variants of the CCP virus, and whether vaccination or prior infection affects transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuture studies should determine the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections caused by variants of concern and in people with immunity following vaccination or previous infection,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cWithout prospective longitudinal studies with methods that minimize selection and measurement biases, further updates with the study types included in this living systematic review are unlikely to be able to provide a reliable summary estimate of the proportion of asymptomatic infections caused by SARS-CoV-2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/cdc-no-record-of-naturally-immune-transmitting-covid-19_4102046.html\">CDC admitted<\/a> in November 2021 that there is no record of the naturally immune transmitting the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have COVID-19 but aren\u2019t showing any symptoms are much less likely to transmit the virus that causes the disease, researchers have found.Health officials around the world have warned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}