CDC says coronavirus transmission can occur before the onset of symptoms

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  • A new study shows that carriers of novel coronavirus can spread the infections before the usual COVID-19 symptoms appear.
  • The study echoes earlier findings from late January when some officials said the virus might spread before the onset of symptoms. Those findings were disputed at the time.
  • Medical professionals should take into account the possibility of presymptomatic transmission when conducting contact tracing.
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Reports in late January said that the novel coronavirus was spreading before the onset of symptoms. That was a shocking development at the time. Back then, there were less than 3,000 confirmed cases, and most of them located in China. Less than a week later, nearly 25,000 cases were registered, but public officials were saying that virus transmission wasn’t possible before symptoms appear. Fast-forward to present-day, we have nearly one million cases in the world, and the death toll is pushing 50,000. And the CDC just published a study that says presymptomatic COVID-19 patients can spread the disease.

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