Nearly 150 People Without Symptoms Test Positive for COVID-19 at Homeless Shelter; How Many People Have Had Coronavirus With No Symptoms?

By Washington Examiner. A small cluster of coronavirus cases at a Boston homeless shelter prompted broadscale testing at the facility, and officials were shocked by the results.

Of nearly 400 people tested at the Pine Street Inn earlier this month, 146 people tested positive for the virus. None of those who tested positive showed symptoms, leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin “actively looking into” the results.

“It was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100% of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking,” said Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. (Read more from “Nearly 150 People Without Symptoms Test Positive for COVID-19 at Homeless Shelter” HERE)

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How Many People Have Had Coronavirus With No Symptoms?

By NBC News. A flood of new research suggests that far more people have had the coronavirus without any symptoms, fueling hope that it will turn out to be much less lethal than originally feared. . .

In the last week, reports of silent infections have come from a homeless shelter in Boston, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, pregnant women at a New York hospital, several European countries and California.

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 25 percent of infected people might not have symptoms. The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. John Hyten, thinks it may be as high as 60 percent to 70 percent among military personnel. (Read more from “How Many People Have Had Coronavirus With No Symptoms?” HERE)

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