{"id":214749,"date":"2020-10-09T06:55:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214749"},"modified":"2020-10-13T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T07:27:14","slug":"no-symptoms-for-86-of-lockdown-covid-cases-uk-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214749","title":{"rendered":"No symptoms for 86% of lockdown COVID cases, UK study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 Oct 8, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-lockdown-tape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-206100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-lockdown-tape.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-lockdown-tape.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-lockdown-tape-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">People who were asymptomatic accounted for 86% of the people who tested positive for COVID-19 in a UK sample population during lockdown, a study showed on Thursday, meaning the current policy of testing people with symptoms might miss many cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In England, people are encouraged to get tested for COVID-19 only if they have symptoms of a persistent cough, fever, or loss of taste or smell, with suspected contacts of positive cases told to self-isolate in the first instance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But epidemiologists at University College London found that such an approach might miss the vast majority of cases, complicating Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s attempts to clamp down on a second wave of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">UCL scientists used the Office for National Statistics Infection Survey, which looks at the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community and not only those who get a test because they have symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The pilot study sampled 36,061 people living in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who were tested between April 26 and June 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of the 115 with a positive result, only 16 reported symptoms, with 99 not reporting any specific symptoms on the day of the test. Moreover, 142 people who reported symptoms on the day of the test did not test positive for COVID-19, vastly outnumbering those who tested positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe fact that so many people who tested positive were asymptomatic on the day of a positive test result calls for a change to future testing strategies,\u201d said Irene Petersen of UCL Epidemiology &amp; Health Care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cMore widespread testing will help to capture \u2018silent\u2019 transmission and potentially prevent future outbreaks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The authors noted that other studies showed different results, with one in China suggesting just 5% of cases were asymptomatic, and a study in Iceland suggesting 43 cases out of 100 had no symptoms. They added that the sampling used in any study was likely to be a factor in its findings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-asymptomat\/no-symptoms-for-86-of-lockdown-covid-cases-uk-study-says-idUKKBN26T2NW\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a large part of the world is being shut down, businesses are being closed and jobs are being lost for a disease that in the vast majority of cases has no symptoms <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214750,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214749\/revisions\/214750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}