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Omicron variant: What does asymptomatic mean? Can asymptomatic people transmit COVID?
NJ.com ^ | 01/04/2022 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 01/06/2022 7:39:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Although the omicron variant of COVID-19 has led to a surge in cases across the United States over the past few weeks, not everyone who has caught the virus or tested positive is showing symptoms.

However, asymptomatic people who are infected with the virus can still transmit it to others.

What does ‘asymptomatic’ mean?

People who develop asymptomatic COVID-19 exhibit no symptoms of an infection that typically show up. In cases of the omicron variant, that includes a runny nose, cough or fatigue.

Here is more on what being “asymptomatic” means in relation to the omicron variant of COVID-19 and why asymptomatic people still should be careful as there is a chance they can transmit COVID-19 to others.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: asymptomatic; omicron; spread; transmission; vaccines
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1 posted on 01/06/2022 7:39:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

the greatest trick Satan [”CDC”] ever pulled
off was claiming there was a DISEASE without
signs or symptoms that needed their POISONs [”Vaccine”].


2 posted on 01/06/2022 7:42:54 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SeekAndFind

People who develop asymptomatic COVID-19 exhibit no symptoms of an infection that typically show up. In cases of the omicron variant, that includes a runny nose, cough or fatigue.


Read it slowly and let your lips move.

why are they asymptomatic. Could it be the weak virus? Continue the fear for a runny nose, cough or fatigue.


3 posted on 01/06/2022 7:45:13 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind
What does ‘asymptomatic’ mean?

People who develop asymptomatic COVID-19 exhibit no symptoms…


What does it mean when the populace is as dumb as toadstools and doesn’t know what the prefix “a” means or what the root “symptom” means?
4 posted on 01/06/2022 7:46:24 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: SeekAndFind

Asymptomatic means “who cares?”

Sung to the tune of the three little pigs.

Who’s afraid of the common cold?
The common cold?
The common cold?

Who’s afraid of the common cold?
Amazon sells hazmat suits.


5 posted on 01/06/2022 7:46:36 AM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me to tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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To: SeekAndFind

My best friend has had a very mild case of covid since last Thursday or Friday. She went to this doctor we know who tested her then gave her the HCQ/Ivermectin protocol. As of yesterday she says she’s fine. Supposedly after 8 days you are not contagious anymore. We are going out to dinner with them Saturday night. No hugging. No food sharing. 😏


6 posted on 01/06/2022 7:47:28 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind

17. There is very little evidence supporting the alleged danger of “asymptomatic transmission”. In June 2020, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said:

From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,”

A meta-analysis of Covid studies, published by Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2020, found that asymptomatic carriers had a less than 1% chance of infecting people within their household. Another study, done on influenza in 2009, found:

…limited evidence to suggest the importance of [asymptomatic] transmission. The role of asymptomatic or presymptomatic influenza-infected individuals in disease transmission may have been overestimated…”

https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/


7 posted on 01/06/2022 7:50:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

he is how messed up this is

at my work per the CDC

if you were in close contact with a confirmed case:

1) if you are unvaxxed you quarantine no matter what
2) if vaxxed you don’t quarantine unless you have symptoms

since most Vaxxed have no or mild symptoms, they are the ones spreading it because they don’t know that they have it!


8 posted on 01/06/2022 7:53:23 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: SeekAndFind

You know what? Who shives a git. There is so much bullsh*t flying at us from all of the “experts” out there that nobody knows what the hell is going on.


9 posted on 01/06/2022 8:15:27 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Asymptomatic transmission of a virus... someone needs to go back to medical school.


10 posted on 01/06/2022 8:17:50 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

No sneeze, no disease.


11 posted on 01/06/2022 8:20:34 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Even if they have symptoms, they are so mild that noonemis going on life support,because of it. Heck,they hardly even know they have it

Heard about one city thst was hysterically screaming about “unprecedented cases... even worse than at the height of thr pandemic a year ago”, and they said “1100 people sick”, then towards the end of the segment they finally broke down the numbers

ONLY 2 have died, with only like 14 in the hospital-,out-of 11000 sick! The 2 that died very likely had severe underlying conditions, were,elderly with other conditions,, or were massively overweight, and the ones in the hospital, they didn’t mention how severe the cases were, likely not severe, otherwise the report,would have mentioned that they were “fighting for their lives” likely.

From here on out, articles that mention “cases” are meaningless unless,they also mention how many are currently dying

Every year, there are millions of cases of flu. It means nothing (except for time lost in,their jobs, if one wants to keep stats on that for whatever reason). It,is the death count that,indicates howmdeadly,the virus is, not,the number f cases


12 posted on 01/06/2022 8:39:27 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

I had no symptoms on Fri Dec 24th and was around a dozen people indoors for hours with no airflow.

By Sat morning I had symptoms and tested positive at home and then didn’t leave the house for a week.

One of the dozen people I was around on Fri tested positive on Sun (and they had taken a negative test on Fri morning).

Therefore it seems logical I infected that person on Fri even though I had no symptoms.

(Although technically I COULD HAVE been infected by them, the other way around, but it seems unlikely).


13 posted on 01/06/2022 8:50:05 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: SeekAndFind

Could it be that asymptomatic.people who test positive for COVID simply had a false positive test? I have always been suspect of these tests which are administered in parking lots and supermarkets then sent by the thousands to some unknown factory lab. What is the false positive rate? Are these testing labs in some way incentivized to report positive tests? Are there any quality controls for theses tests? What if someone tests positive then retests and the results are negative? I seem to recall Elon Musk having four COVID tests in a single day with two positive and two negative results. How are these tests developed two years ago able to detect new strains like the omicron variant just identified a month ago? We are told that the omicron variant is running rampant, but how do theses tests identify which variant or are government agencies just making assumptions and guesses?

I believe these tests are significantly inaccurate, especially when being administered and processed with little quality control, and the generic tests being given on every street corner cannot differentiate between COVID strains. Yet governments are interpreting the testing numbers as if the tests were100% accurate and can identify every new variant.


14 posted on 01/06/2022 8:58:01 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: BenLurkin

If you are “asymptomatic”, why the heck are you testing?

The current crop of COVID tests are simple screening tools to help a DOCTOR make a diagnosis.

1. You get a vaxx from the pharmacy.
2. You test at the pharmacy...just to check.
3. You are positive.
4. You are still asymptomatic 5 days later.

Q1: Given the data points above, what caused the positive result?
Q2: What do you do on day 6?
Q3: Where did you involve a REAL doctor?


15 posted on 01/06/2022 9:01:57 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (This is NOT a pandemic of the unvaxx'd. It is a complete loss of common sense.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Asymptomatic.....just a way to keep people on edge, stressed out and firmly in the “Cult of Fauci”.

It’s just as bad as those that say, “I got the shot and I haven’t got covid, so you should get the shot too”. Well, if someone can be asymptomatic, then there’s no way of knowing that you didn’t get covid or transmit it, right?

This stuff can be deadly for some. Some, with certain conditions can find themselves in serious and fatal trouble. But, there are also growing numbers of folks that are able to get alternative treatments and get over it, as they would the flu, no problem.

I crept through a traffic jam the other day. Thought there must have been a bad accident. Nope....the county set up a free, drive thru, testing tent and the line of cars from the road, into and winding through the parking lot caused it. It would have been interesting to see how many actually had symptoms.

I’ll always revert back to the woman in Buffalo who was in a coma, on death’s door. Family had to sue the hospital twice. She finally got an alternate treatment, survived and was out of the hospital shortly thereafter. And, still, the hospital spokeswoman was running her mouth about alternate treatments and CDC protocol, blah blah blah.

Hell, there’s another posting on here about a doctor that just got banned from Twitter. If what was in the post is true....7000 covid patients, ZERO-NADA-NONE-NO-ZILCH deaths. All treated early and with alternative treatments.


16 posted on 01/06/2022 9:04:22 AM PST by qaz123
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To: SeekAndFind

Asymptotic means you aren’t sick.


17 posted on 01/06/2022 9:59:49 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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RE: Asymptotic means you aren’t sick.

OK, next question — How transmissible is your infection? And if it is, how sick will those who get your infection be? I think that’s the key question.

The vaccines don’t prevent infection, but their current selling point is they make you asymptomatic or symptoms less severe and save you from death.


18 posted on 01/06/2022 10:08:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Which then increases the potential that the vaxxed are now super spreaders and don’t even know it.


19 posted on 01/06/2022 10:19:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: SeekAndFind

Asymptomatic = NOT SICK.

The symptoms (fever, cough, congestion, weakness, body aches) ARE THE SICKNESS!


20 posted on 01/06/2022 11:45:33 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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