● Science Direct, 2020 May 13 – A study on infectivity of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers
We report here a case of the asymptomatic patient and present clinical characteristics of 455 contacts, which aims to study the infectivity of asymptomatic carriers.
… we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak. <see Article>
● “In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital “The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,”
“The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today,” Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital, Genoa. “It is clear that today the COVID-19 disease is different.” <“New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says“>
● “UPMC doctor says COVID-19 has become ‘less prevalent’ and isn’t making people as sick” “All signs that we have available right now show that this virus is less prevalent than it was weeks ago,” “We see all of this as evidence that COVID-19 cases are less severe than when this first started,” <see source>
