Symptomatic Vs Asymptomatic Covid 19
If you live in a house with people with probable covid 19 infection and you have no symptoms you may be an asymptomatic case.
Symptomatic vs asymptomatic covid 19. Essentially the term asymptomatic is not associated with time while presymptomatic is. Experts with the infectious diseases society of america idsa discussed the shift in thinking between the two terms at a media briefing friday. April 13 2020 asymptomatic or presymptomatic for covid 19. Technically even that is a symptom.
About 75 of people who test positive without showing symptoms turn out to be presymptomatic displaying coughing fatigue. Being asymptomatic means that you have no symptoms. If the number of asymptomatic cases is 30 8 then asymptomatic people would account for 6 6 of transmission while. So far presymptomatic is a much more common category than asymptomatic.
One reason covid 19 has spread so rapidly is that people infected with the sars cov 2 coronavirus can show no symptoms of disease and yet are still contagious they don t look or feel sick but. However there are reports of loss of sense of smell in asymptomatic people.