>>13362286>Median incubation period is 5 days. The most contagious period is several days prior to and then several days after the onset of symptoms. Initial onset is typically mild.This is almost certainly for the general case, not the 2% of infected who die from COVID, their timeline of symptoms could be different. And even still the majority of people who die vs live will almost certainly be bed ridden in shorter order instead of being out and about "several days after the onset of symptoms"
Younger healthier people who can't afford a missed day's work often go to work with minor cold symptoms (or at least pre COVID they did), the elderly and sickly will say nope and just stay home even for mild symptoms.
Going way back to the original point, tracking deaths instead of infections could affect the predicted rate of mutations, particularly, more deaths in elderly/sickly = fewer chances of spread = fewer mutation strands being passed on. I admit it would be really hard to make comparisons with several of these contrasting variables.
>antibodiesOk that answers one question of how they knew they were infected. I've seen some news that antibodies showed up before COVID so there's still a lot to be answered.
>The vaccinated group was only exposed at 10-15% the rate of the control group, which seems highly unlikely considering they were all health care workers, or 2. They were exposed at a fairly even rate, and the immune response to the vaccine prevented the virus from replicating enough to be detectable in the upper respiratory tract. The latter seems more likely imo. Was it randomized with placebos? If not then it's garbage. What study are you referring to?
