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~ 40% with confirmed COVID-19 are asymptomatic

HealthDay News – The percentage of asymptomatic infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is 0.25 and 40.50 percent, respectively, in people who undergo a test and in people with confirmed COVID-19 According to an overview published online on December 14th, JAMA network opened.

Qiuyue Ma, Ph.D., of Peking University in Beijing, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis to study the percentage of asymptomatic infections in people who undergo testing and those with confirmed COVID-19 (population tested and confirmed, respectively) of 95 individual studies on 29,776,306 people who take a test.

The researchers found that the pooled percentage of asymptomatic infections in the population tested was 0.25 percent, which was higher for residents or employees of nursing homes, air or cruise travelers, and pregnant women (4.52, 2.02 and 2, respectively, 34 percent). In the confirmed population, the pooled percentage of asymptomatic infections was 40.50 percent, which was higher in pregnant women, air or cruise travelers, and nursing home residents and employees (54.11, 52.91, and 47.53 percent, respectively).

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“The high percentage of asymptomatic infections underscores the potential risk of transmission of asymptomatic infections in communities,” the authors write. “Screening for asymptomatic infections is necessary, especially for countries and regions that have successfully controlled SARS-CoV-2.”

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