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Old 25-03-2020, 08:15   #1260
RichardCoulter
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
No, it doesn’t - at the bottom of the article it states

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



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).
Wow, that is worrying. There will be lots of people with the virus who have no idea they have it.
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