{"id":122631,"date":"2020-05-29T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=122631"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:57:03","slug":"increasing-evidence-for-asymptomatic-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/increasing-evidence-for-asymptomatic-coronavirus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Evidence For Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we discussed the possibility of these being more than the claimed 3\/10 Asymptomatic Coronavirus cases.
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Since then, the ONS, the Office For National Statistics, has revealed that a nationwide study has shown around 7\/10 people who test positive have no Coronavirus symptoms. This just reinforces the need for social distancing, because you really don\u2019t know who has the virus.<\/p>\n

The data was from our UKs testing system, in which around 8,000 people have been testing positive per day. However, some scientists are skeptical of this worrying claim, and say that some tests are simply false positives. But considering all the other studies and all the other evidence, from multiple countries and sources, it\u2019s hard to deny the fact that it\u2019s very likely around 7\/10 people with Coronavirus don\u2019t show any symptoms.<\/p>\n

When speaking about the infection rate, the governments chief scientific advisor reminded the public that:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s worth remembering that we still have a significant burden of infection. We are still seeing new infections every day at quite a significant rate. There\u2019s not a lot of room to do things, and things need to be done cautiously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost 80% of people who tested positive revealed they had no symptoms at all on the day of the test, whilst a further 70% of people who tested positive said they showed no symptoms a week before and after the test.<\/p>\n

Peter Benton, who works at the ONS, said: \u201cIf 70 per cent of people are asymptomatic that probably means there are people who are infectious and don\u2019t know it, and therefore continuing with social distancing is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists have admitted, though, that the test can\u2019t show if the Asymptomatic positive people are actually infectious or not, so the government stresses great caution regarding being near people, whether you\u2019ve had a test or not.<\/p>\n

Carl Heneghan, of Oxford University, said of the asymptomatic figures: \u201cIf this is a true phenomenon it is hugely important. But you have to ask, is it a false positive problem? When someone says \u2018I didn\u2019t have any symptoms\u2019 is that true or is that a false positive? Right now they are both equally likely.\u201d<\/p>\n

But they problem here the tests are around 95% accurate, meaning only 5% are false positives which is not a crazy amount. Even if some cases are false positives, it still leave a very high percentage of people testing positive without displaying symptoms, which could cause many problems to arise, but it could also suggest that more of the population has had it than scientists initially thought.<\/p>\n

The new tests and trace system may be seriously disrupted if there are this many positive people walking around with so symptoms, and this is something the government is going to have to think about in coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we discussed the possibility of these being more than the claimed 3\/10 Asymptomatic Coronavirus cases. Since then, the ONS, the Office For National Statistics, has revealed that a nationwide study has shown around 7\/10 people who test positive have no Coronavirus symptoms. This just reinforces the need for social distancing, because you really don\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,5],"tags":[1802,1811,1810,1844,171,990,101,43,1454,1295],"class_list":["post-122631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-information","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-worldwide","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122650,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122631\/revisions\/122650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}