“Common things happen commonly”
People that were tested for SARS CoV2 (The viruses name that causes COVID-19)..... ie those that met the restrictive CDC testing criteria.
Data released from Stanford, CA of 560 people tested for SARS cov2, 22% of them had other viral infections.
Only 49 people had SARS CoV2. So less than 10% of people meeting the CDC criteria (travel, in contact with a known case, etc) were actually infected. They were sick with something else.
Moral of the story. Most sicknesses with fever and sore throat are caused by some other virus (or bacteria).
Other moral, co-infections are possible. So, for example, influenza positive doesn’t rule out a SARS CoV2 coinfection.
For now, common things happen commonly. That fever and sore throat are likely to be caused by something else.
https://medium.com/@nigam/higher-co-infection-rates-in-covid19-b24965088333
SARS CoV2 is the virus. Covid19 is the disease that can be caused by infection with the virus. Not everyone infected with SARS CoV2 will develop the disease covid19.
In your latest article, just like this one I’m not understanding the difference between infected and sick. Are the 49 infected? What are they infected with SARS COV2 or Covid-19? I would appreciate if you could explain the difference of all four states. The articles I’ve read overall on the topic seem to imply that being infected is not the same as being sick. I understood sick with SARS COV2 but now I’m not sure. The rates given out by John Hopkins of infected, recovered, are of those who have died of Covid-19 or SARS COV2? Are the two terms being used interchangeably? Any help would be appreciated since I’m in a similar role of having to explain this to…