CV and mad panic behaviour

[Thryleon]

Even when it comes from the head of the international quarantine organisation?

Symptom and infection variability are features of COVID - according to the scientific literature.

For example, the latest quarantine worker to test positive has a very low viral load and is unlikely to be infectious.

Especially when it comes from the head of a quarantine organisation.

When are viral load and viral shedding the highest?

The temporal patterns of viral shedding vary among different infections. The consensus for COVID-19 is that the viral load and viral shedding are highest on early days of the infection, peaking on or before symptoms onset. One study estimated that 44% of transmission could occur before the first symptoms show up. Another study monitored viral shedding over the course of disease progression and found that viral shedding drops 5 days after symptoms onset and stops after day 10.

COVID-19’s temporal shedding profile is in stark contrast to SARS. Viral shedding for COVID-19 peaks much earlier, and at much higher levels. Unfortunately, heaving shedding early in infection makes it harder to contain the virus, which likely contribute to COVID-19’s rapid spread.

For a virus that is both highly transmissable, and virulent, to the point where we are quaranting at all, the fact that someone in that setting tests positive (after becoming symptomatic), and isn't highly contagious should ring some massive alarm bells as far as I am concerned.

Look, I am no tin foil hat wearer nor anti vaxer despite [member=153]LP[/member] 's greatest attempts to paint me as one, and yet this sounds and reads like absolute bollocks.

[member=153]LP[/member] you really need to stop paraphrasing, and inferring meaning into my comments, and I would appreciate having this forum to ask these questions, rather than the real world where the repercussions regarding all of this are a little more permanent.