Symptoms of Covid-19 are a poor marker of infection

86% of people who tested positive for Covid-19 during lockdown did not have virus symptoms (cough, and/or fever, and/or loss of taste/smell), finds a study by Professor Irene Petersen (UCL Epidemiology & Health Care).

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