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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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No, it doesn’t - at the bottom of the article it states
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Correction: This story was updated to reflect that SARS-CoV-2 RNA, not live virus, was identified on surfaces in cruise ship cabins up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess.
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Detection of viral RNA does not necessarily indicate the presence of infectious virus.
To me, the important bit was in the source report
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/...cid=mm6912e3_w
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Among 3,711 Diamond Princess passengers and crew, 712 (19.2%) had positive test results for SARS-CoV-2 (Figure 1). Of these, 331 (46.5%) were asymptomatic at the time of testing. Among 381 symptomatic patients, 37 (9.7%) required intensive care, and nine (1.3%) died.
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This shows it doesn’t matter if "you feel fine" - nearly 10% of the passengers on the Diamond Princess didn’t show symptoms at the time of testing, even though they were infected (thus able to infect others).