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Do you know anyone who had covid and was completely asymptotic?

Asked by JLeslie (65417points) January 18th, 2022 from iPhone

They found out because they had an antibody test and don’t recall having been sick at all of any type. Of course recall can be flawed.

I have been extremely skeptical this entire time that there are asymptomatic cases. I believed, and still do, that there are plenty of pre-symptomatic people spreading it around (like almost all other viruses) but completely asymptomatic through the entire infection I have big doubts. I think a lot of people get mild symptoms too, and ignore them and go out and infect people also, because I’ve learned from real life and many Q’s here, that many people think it’s ridiculous to worry about giving or getting a cold.

Asymptomatic is easier for the population at large to understand that people are contagious even when not sick, so maybe that word was used on purpose in the beginning.

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