Reply to post: Re: Ahhhh, keeping the myth of the “asymptomatic super-spreaders” alive!

Unable to test every tourist and unable to turn them away, Greece used ML to pick visitors for COVID-19 checks

LionelB Silver badge

Re: Ahhhh, keeping the myth of the “asymptomatic super-spreaders” alive!

stop testing healthy people

Make that "apparently healthy people". The incubation period for Covid (i.e., the time from infection to symptom onset) is roughly 1-14 days, with an average of 5-6 days. During that period, you may well be contagious. Some studies have concluded that you are in fact most contagious 1-2 days before the onset of symptoms, when the viral load is highest and your immune system has not fully kicked in.

https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/07/how-long-symptom-onset-person-contagious

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5

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