What’s the Difference Between Asymptomatic and Pre-Symptomatic Spread?

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This CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus is bizarre for many reasons, making its spread unpredictable and hard to control.

One oddity is how easily people can get infected by someone without symptoms. But there’s a difference between asymptomatic spread and pre-symptomatic spread.

Here’s What You Need to Know:

Asymptomatic spread is the transmission of the virus by people who do not have symptoms and will never get symptoms from their infection. But those infected carriers could still get others very sick.