New coronavirus can cause infections with no symptoms and sicken otherwise healthy people, studies show
The new coronavirus can cause infections without any symptoms, and it can sicken otherwise healthy individuals, according to two of the first rigorous analyses of patients who contracted it.
Two papers published Friday in the journal the Lancet offer some of the first rigorous analyses of patients who contracted a novel coronavirus that has broken out in China and spread to other countries. Among their discoveries: The virus does not only affect people with other, underlying health conditions, and people who are not showing symptoms can still be carrying the virus.
In , researchers analyzed data from the first 41 patients who were admitted to hospitals with confirmed cases of the infection in
