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2020-05-04 Science & Technology

Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 We should have gotten a clue when most of the people on that cruise ship did NOT get sick.
Of course this study will probably get reversed by another one tomorrow...

Posted by Glenmore 2020-05-04 01:16|| 2020-05-04 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 So there was a rush to publish a sensational claim that made the virus seem much more dangerous, and that message resonated so well with media and experts that they published it in a respectable? medical journal without any effort to find out if it was true.
And that article, that bit of fake science, rapidly spread around the world, and continues to spread panic and economic disruption around the world.
Well done!

Posted by daniel 2020-05-04 01:41|| 2020-05-04 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 The study may be flawed, but every pathogen has asymptomatic carriers.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-04 01:48|| 2020-05-04 01:48|| Front Page Top

#4 But I thought the science was settled.

Is that not true? /sarc

Posted by AlanC 2020-05-04 07:33|| 2020-05-04 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 So typical. Push out the sensationalist rubbish. And gee whiz, Fauci was all over that. What a surprise.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-04 07:50|| 2020-05-04 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 well that's not helpful in selling newspapers

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-04 08:08|| 2020-05-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

#7 ..or airtime.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-04 08:15|| 2020-05-04 08:15|| Front Page Top

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