> As we learned that more and more infections were effectively asymptomatic, early numbers on what was happening are hard to take at face value.
According to [1], it's 40.5% of the confirmed population. It's indeed a high rate, but those cases are also taken into consideration wrt to mortality rate as far as I am aware. It also highlights just how transmissible this virus is, allowing it to eventually infect the vulnerable population.
We also learned that covid was a component in a very large portion of excess deaths. Yes, somebody may have died of cancer, but covid was also present. It's possible that the patient sans covid would not have died.
Plus, there is the inverse, long covid and its symptoms lingering and weakening the population making it susceptible to subsequent diseases.
The problem however, in all of this, is that any trust to certain institutions in the US is now gone, which will only cause more harm.
> In this meta-analysis of the percentage of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among populations tested for and with confirmed COVID-19, the pooled percentage of asymptomatic infections was 0.25% among the tested population and 40.50% among the confirmed population.
The charts did not seem to get updated based on backfilling of how many people were infected. Or does that just not reflect on how I read the charts?
I still get people that are 100% convinced young people were somehow not getting it during the initial waves. Which frankly is non-sensical. Knowing that kids can get it, there is no explanation I have seen that could somehow magically have kept it out of every school that hadn't closed yet in the first year.
And testing is still... interesting. With many I know that test positive only doing so weeks after any symptoms, such that I was even told that 'loss of smell' is no longer a defining symptom? Schools have flat given up on either testing or requiring negative before the kids are allowed back. Ours at least encourage and support masking during the return period.
I don't think it is trust in the institutions, necessarily. Though, that certainly isn't helping. I think it is lack of certainty period. In large because we just don't have anyone with a 100% handle on the situation.
According to [1], it's 40.5% of the confirmed population. It's indeed a high rate, but those cases are also taken into consideration wrt to mortality rate as far as I am aware. It also highlights just how transmissible this virus is, allowing it to eventually infect the vulnerable population.
We also learned that covid was a component in a very large portion of excess deaths. Yes, somebody may have died of cancer, but covid was also present. It's possible that the patient sans covid would not have died.
Plus, there is the inverse, long covid and its symptoms lingering and weakening the population making it susceptible to subsequent diseases.
The problem however, in all of this, is that any trust to certain institutions in the US is now gone, which will only cause more harm.
[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
> In this meta-analysis of the percentage of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among populations tested for and with confirmed COVID-19, the pooled percentage of asymptomatic infections was 0.25% among the tested population and 40.50% among the confirmed population.