Patients Can Spread Virus Before Showing Symptoms: CDC

Patients Can Spread Virus Before Showing Symptoms: CDC
Medical workers wait for patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 2, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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Patients who become infected with the CCP virus can spread the illness before showing any signs of having it, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found.

Researchers looked at 243 cases in Singapore from January through March and identified seven clusters of cases where the “most likely explanation” for the secondary cases becoming infected was “presymptomatic transmission.”

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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