People who have been very worried about asymptomatic transmission…
September 29, 2022•95 words
"People who have been very worried about asymptomatic transmission, and thought it a good idea for healthy non-symptomatic people to wear masks if around other people, look at this study. The asymptomatic transmission rate is almost nil.
There continues to be no evidence that universal masking saves lives.
A new study shows “transmission capacity from asymptomatic cases was limited” and by limited they mean:
"That out of the 305 asymptomatic close contacts of index cases followed, only one new infection took place:"
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2671
But we already knew this back in May:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219423"
— Plum
8-19-2020