{"id":150690,"date":"2020-12-03T06:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=150690"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:51:34","slug":"epidemiology-director-insists-on-mask-wearing-to-reduce-spread-says-many-infected-with-covid-19-do-not-show-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/12\/03\/epidemiology-director-insists-on-mask-wearing-to-reduce-spread-says-many-infected-with-covid-19-do-not-show-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiology director insists on mask-wearing to reduce spread, says many infected with Covid-19 do not show symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mascarillas-Pixabay-e1590682197251.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142223\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Ronald Skewes says 65% of persons that test positive for Covid-19 are asymptomatic. He stresses the importance of wearing facial masks, keeping physical distance and avoiding gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While testing is usually carried out after a person shows some symptoms, people that undergo routine testing frequently test positive. Such is the case of the director of the National Police, for instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Azman, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Nature magazine that there is a lower risk of transmission from asymptomatic people, but these present a significant public-health risk because they are more likely to be out in the community than isolated at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-03141-3\">Nature<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/12\/03\/646793\/la-mayoria-de-los-que-tienen-el-covid-19-es-asintomatica\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 December 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Ronald Skewes says 65% of persons that test positive for Covid-19 are asymptomatic. He stresses the importance of wearing facial masks, keeping physical distance and avoiding gatherings. While testing is usually carried out after a person shows some symptoms, people that undergo routine testing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/12\/03\/epidemiology-director-insists-on-mask-wearing-to-reduce-spread-says-many-infected-with-covid-19-do-not-show-symptoms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150721,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150690\/revisions\/150721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}