Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he didn’t know asymptomatic people could transmit coronavirus from Newsweek, 2 Apr 2020
Individuals could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad, but we didn’t know that until the last 24 hours.
As shocking as his lack of knowledge on a pandemic that is changing the world society is, it’s important to note: “symptomatic” is to a degree subjective. Some people have higher base temperatures, are they symptomatic? Some cough regularly. Some have IBS. Unless there is an obvious degradation of health, there is really no well-defined checklist of factors to make someone symptomatic. So when is it safe to allow widespread personal integration and travel? I’m going to be an asshole and quote myself:
Viruses that show symptoms faster and that kill their hosts faster will have a more limited spread. COVID-19’s delay and lower fatality rate may be making it more widespread.
from Coronavirus – Wed 18 Mar 2020 – first pass at growth prediction, SARS and MERS
Here’s the timeline knowledge on transmission as best as I could find (I will updated if I get better info):
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