WHAT IS THE ASYMPTOMATIC RATE OF COVID-19?

     From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

        DAY   USA   WORLD   Brazil     India  South Africa

June     9    1093     4732         1185       246       82

July    22     1205     7128         1293      1120     572

Aug    12     1504     6556        1242        835     130

Sept     9     1208      6222       1136       1168       82

Oct     21     1225      6849         571        703       85

Nov    25      2304    12025        620        518      118

Dec    30      3880    14748       1224       299      465

Jan     14      4142    15512       1151        189     712              

Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107     398

          25       2414    10578        1582       119     144

Mar     2        1989    9490         1726        110     194

          31       1115   12301          3950       458      58

April   6         906    11787          4211         631     37

May    4         853   13667          3025      3786     59 

         26         607    12348         2399      3842    101 

June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95 

         10        452     14097         2484      6138    127

         15        353       9248         2760      1470    208

         16        434       9497         2673      1411    136

         22        352       8560         2080      1129    297

         23        326       8704         2343        978    166

         29        294       7660         1917        816    226

         30        249       8505         2127        991    383

Summary:

• The U.S. is looking better.
• The World and India have plateaued, which is better than being on a rise.
• Country ranking today of new cases:
• #1  India  
• #2  Brazil
• #3  Colombia
• #4  UK
• #5  Argentina
• #6  Indonesia
• #7  Russia
• #8  South Africa
• #9  USA

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  The mortality rate is 2.2%.  Thus in ten days or so:
• India will continue to have around 1000 deaths/day.
• Brazil will drop by a factor of two to 1000 deaths/day.
• The U.S. will increase a bit to 300/day.

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  Of course, the mortality rate depends on age.
• 39% of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. occurred in nursing homes.  Click on that graphic to read the details.

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  But what is the asymptomatic rate? 
• The mortality rate could be as low as 0.5% if the asymptomatic rate is 80%.
• However, both the CDC and South Korea believe this rate is 30%.
• Way back in November, Nature reported early studies shows that this rate was as high as 81%, but more recent meta-analysis indicated 17%.
• Anthony Fauci says 40-45%, and we might not know this rate until later in the summer.
• The bottom line is that medical experts do not really know what is the asymptomatic rate of COVID-19.

Can asymptomatic cases spread the disease?  At this time, the CDC speculates that 75% of asymptomatic cases are infectious.  And in case you did not know, asymptomatic individuals are afflicted, but show no symptoms.

It depends on the individual, but a COVID-19 patient is infectious for from 10-20 days.  Worse, this individual can spread the disease two days before showing any symptoms.

Here is something to scare you: 66% of venereal disease cases are asymptomatic.  This means that two-thirds of them so afflicted are capable of infecting you even if they show no symptoms!

The seasonal flu has been around forever, so you would think that medical science knows the range of asymptomatic cases depending on the season?  Nope.  However, the field has guessed that the asymptomatic rate of the flu is 50%.  Again, this is the group that most likely spreads the disease.  The ones who are sick stay at home and later warn you by coughing.

Even for the common cold, there is little consensus.  One study indicated that 60.5% of those afflicted with the rhinovirus are asymptomatic.  

On these bases, you would thus surmise that the asymptomatic rate of COVID-19 must be higher than 50%.  And if the ongoing studies cited by Dr. Fauci come to any kind of conclusion, we might know the asymptomatic rate of this disease by September.

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