The World Health Organization incited backlash from public health officials during a news conference on June 8 when Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead for the COVID-19 response, said it's ...

A new global study review of COVID-19 patients has found that a significant percentage of carriers are asymptomatic. The review, carried out by researchers in China using data from nearly 30 million ...

Some 60% of virus spread starts with those who have no symptoms. This is a MedPage Today story. A cough or sneeze in the checkout line at the grocery store may elicit fear of COVID-19, but that ...

Researchers have found that asymptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) patients are more likely to be older, male, and have more comorbidities and a higher risk of stroke than symptomatic ...

Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) health emergencies programme. One reason Covid-19 has spread so rapidly is that people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 ...

In one cruise-ship coronavirus outbreak, more than 80% of people who tested positive for COVID-19 did not show any symptoms of the disease, according to a new paper published in the journal Thorax.

At a June 8 press conference, a World Health Organization scientist confusingly suggested that asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus is “very rare” — a statement that many scientists found ...

Receipt of a patient-centered educational leaflet decreases the desire to take antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) ...

This week, the matter of asymptomatic transmission of the novel coronavirus has caused much confusion — and sparked a lively debate on Twitter. It started Monday when the World Health Organization ...

The scientists are still studying the ways the coronavirus spreads, months into the pandemic. And one of the biggest questions is who can spread the virus. Yesterday, a World Health Organization ...