The continuing indiscriminate quarantines are indefensible.
August 19, 2020
Daniel Horowitz
for the first time in history, governments across the globe have
quarantined the healthy with the sick for fear that asymptomatic
carriers are spreading the virus and killing people in droves. But after
months of crushed liberty and destroyed livelihoods, is there any proof
that asymptomatic carriers are indeed super-spreaders? Shouldn't we
first investigate this theory before we force universal shutdowns and
universal muzzle-wearing?
A recently published contact tracing study
of 3,410 close contacts of 391 SARS-CoV-2 cases in a Chinese province
near Wuhan during the peak months of the virus found that
transmissibility seems to increase commensurately with the severity of
symptoms presented by the infected individual. Of the 127 secondary
infections that were traced to the original 3,410 cases, just eight were
from individuals confirmed as asymptomatic.
All asymptomatic
individuals were followed up with 14 days later by study administrators
to confirm that they had not presented symptoms. The study was published
on August 13 in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal............To Read More.....
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