Assessing Asymptomatic, Presymptomatic, and Symptomatic Transmission Risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2.
Peng WuFengfeng LiuZhaorui ChangYun LinMinrui RenCanjun ZhengYu LiZhibin PengYin QinJianxing YuMengjie GengXiaokun YangHongting ZhaoZhili LiSheng ZhouLu RanBenjamin J CowlingShengjie LaiQiulan ChenLiping WangTim K TsangZhongjie LiPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmissions play an important role in spreading infection, although asymptomatic cases pose a lower risk of transmission than symptomatic cases. Early case detection and effective test-and-trace measures are important to reduce transmission.