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Risk of infecting others when you're without symptoms is supposedly small..

I'm by no means an expert, but to me the problem seems to be lack of proactive social distancing; and lack of proactive testing of everyone with symptoms.

Current guidelines seems statistically sound, it's just that we have little mitigation for the few that do slip through.

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"People who contract the novel coronavirus emit high amounts of virus very early on in their infection, according to a new study from Germany that helps to explain the rapid and efficient way in which the virus has spread around the world."

"The researchers found very high levels of virus emitted from the throat of patients from the earliest point in their illness —when people are generally still going about their daily routines"

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-...

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