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SW-User
Yes. Most people will have at least mild symptoms, but plenty go under the radar. There's growing evidence of this. Labs around the world are busy developing ways to test for certain antibodies in your blood, which will show whether you had the virus or not. It'll take a while until they are developed, because there is a high margin for error with some methods (for example, antibodies produced to fight a different virus -- like the coronavirus that causes one of the four main types of "common cold" -- could cause a false positive reading, so they have to prevent that from happening).
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Yes this virus is very selective in the way it effects different people differently. Most (90%) of us are naturally immune to it and even if we come in contact with it will have no symptoms at all. The other 10% have varying responses from a mild cold all the way to pneumonia and even death. It now seems the death rate is about 0.45% of those who are tested for the disease. Sadly the panic caused by innumerate World Health Organization is hurting a lot more people than the disease.
SW-User
@HootyTheNightOwl Scientists are working on methods of tracking the virus better (see my reply about detecting antibodies). It's a ways off, but eventually they'll be able to have a clearer idea of just how many people were infected, including ones who showed no symptoms. This will, in the short term, help to track and contain it, and in the long term, hopefully, help us prepare better for future outbreaks (which epidemiologists have ensured us are inevitable -- if not another coronavirus, then a new form of influenza, or something else). We need this information so the next outbreak doesn't catch us with our pants down like this one did.
SW-User
mild symptoms not enough to make you feel sick
SW-User
@SW-User Depends on your definition of "mild". Some in the medical world, especially during crisis, use the term "mild" to mean not needing to be hospitalized. You still could feel like you got hit by a truck and have to lay in bed for days. But yeah, some people have no symptoms at all, and don't even know they had it. It's freaky that way.
SW-User
Yes