Coronavirus silent and super spreaders
What if you are having no symptoms but you have been asymptotic novel coronavirus affected in the last few these days?
You seem to be all well and coming in contact of many people throughout the day due to your work or personal matters. You don’t have any symptoms of the disease but maybe you are transferring Covid 19 to many other people as a ‘silent spreader’ – someone with no obvious symptoms spreads the virus.
Coronavirus silent and super spreaders
Silent spreaders
A study in the United States has suggested that these silent transmissions may be responsible for half of the total Covid cases in the country. Primary transmitters of novel coronavirus are asymptotic people or the people whose symptoms are not apparent yet, found in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
It’s a need to identify and isolate over one-third of the silent spreaders to control the future outbreak, said the study. Conducted by Alison Galvani, director of Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis and team, the study was based on the coronavirus transmission models. It aimed to find out the extent of silent spreaders accounting for Covid 19 transmission.
Super spreaders
Other largest transmitters of novel coronavirus are ‘super spreaders’, who are more likely to infect, compared to other infected people. Super spreaders include delivery boys, door-to-door vegetable sellers or a doctor. These people come in touch with lots of other people daily. Generally, super spreading cases conform to 80/20 rule – around 80% of transmissions are done by 20% of infected people.
How not to be Covid 19 silent or super spreader
If you don’t know you have got infection or not, just follow a few basic rules. This can stop you from being a silent transmitter or super transmitter of Covid 19. This can save your near and dear ones and strangers from the disease.
- Wear mask properly most of the time, and as per guidelines
- Stay away from crowd as much as possible
- Wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds,time and again
- Apply sanitizer on your hands and things regularly
- Get sanitized yourself wherever it’s facilitated
- Wash you things and cloths and sanitize them daily
Remember, the coronavirus disease that has least affected you because of your high immunity level or other reasons, can affect anybody else dangerously.
‘Typhoid ‘Mary Mallon’ Story:
Let’s leave here with ‘Typhoid’ Mary Mallon story. And also, think about what is the best for us during this coronavirus pandemic.
An Irish immigrant, Mary Mallon, worked as a cook for families in Now York in 1880s. She did not know that she had a transferable typhoid disease. Subsequently, she infected as many as 122 people with typhoid fever,costing five lives. Mallon was the first known healthy carrier of bacterial disease, transmitted by toxin and feces.
However, she didn’t believe that she was asymptotic carrier of typhoid fever. And she refused to give her stool samples for testing to the authorities. Mallon continued to spread disease until police nabbed and kept her in quarantine, twice for a total of 26 years. Finally, she died alone without family and friends.
