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I lieu of adequate testing, I wonder if we could use mild proinflammatory immune response as a way for carriers to self-detect - i.e. so that they feel more sick, quicker, rather that just carrying it around for days unknowingly. Perhaps garlic?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4417560/#sec4ti...

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Please don't speculate or spread information like this. When they know what we should do, they'll tell us.

People have already been admitted to hospital for eating too much garlic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51735367

I'm not suggesting trying to cure or prevent the disease, but to promote its symptoms to emerge in asymptomatic carriers so that they can self-isolate.

"proinflammatory" ... "perhaps garlic"?

The linked article uses a lot of jargon, but I thought I understood from it that garlic has an anti-inflammatory effect. I'm not a doctor though, and don't understand most of the article, so please elaborate if you think garlic would make more inflammation.

Fine. Not garlic. But that's not my point.

If this could be shown to work, that might not be such a bad idea provided the effects could be ceased quickly if the reaction becomes a problem in itself. It's been suggested that the antivirals only provide a substantial benefit in the early stages of the infection, and that the complications and deaths in the later stages are not from the presence of the virus per se, but the damage and fluid in the lungs from the immune system's attempt to fight it.

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