ABSTRACT

It is well known that COVID-19 is transmitted from people who are about to start or have just started to have symptoms. However, patients who have not yet shown symptoms are not asymptomatic; they are described as presymptomatic. Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients are patients who are diagnosed with PCR or antibody positivity but do not show any clinical and radiological symptoms. The proportion of asymptomatic patients among overall COVID-19 patients is very low. Because these patients did not show symptoms other than general-purpose screening, PCR testing was not performed. It is unknown how many asymptomatic patients we know in society. However, there is no evidence that these patients, who are asymptomatic, that is, do not show any symptoms or signs until they recover, are a contagion agent. Although this issue is controversial, the information is not based on concrete evidence. As a result, concrete evidence that asymptomatic COVID-19 patients contract COVID-19 has not yet been shown, and the fact that these patients are a focus of infection has still not been clearly clarified., and public health implications associated with this enigmatic group.

Keywords

COVID-19, asymptomatic, risk.

MJE-005