What are the odds COVID-19 patients with no symptoms could develop them later on?
Quite slim, according to a recent study led by a group of researchers in Aichi Prefecture, who have discovered that asymptomatic coronavirus patients tend to recover within nine days of having their infections confirmed via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
The findings, involving a study on how the disease developed in 90 people without symptoms who contracted the disease aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, were published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine and showed that only 11 people without symptoms would go on to develop them later.
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