Infectious Without Symptoms

New Scientist
Volume 245, Issue 3275, 28 March 2020, Pages 10-11

Lawton, Graham

Abstract

It is easy to spread the virus without realising you are ill, reports Graham Lawton

WITH more than 380,000 confirmed cases worldwide, one thing is clear about the new coronavirus: it is very good at infecting people. Now studies are starting to reveal just how infectious it is – and when a person with covid-19 is most likely to spread the virus.

Keywords

Epidemiology