I couldn't find that discussed anywhere.

After they unknowingly infecting a big bunch of friends and folks, then the virus finally grabs hold and knocks them on their ass. Then realize hey I'm really really sick.

There is another testing routine going on in Colorado that should produce some helpful data, total town 8,000 people getting tested. Then 14 days later tested again

But as you say, testing, testing, testing will identify who needs to be quarantined until well. And give the data scientists need to manage this thing with the lowest death rate.

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Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
There are advantages to having biotech executives as neighbors.

SARAH ZHANG
MARCH 23, 2020

San Miguel County in Colorado has, in ordinary times, fewer than three full-time employees in its public-health department. It has no hospital. Its total population is only 8,000. And yet last week, the county became the first in the United States to announce that it would be offering all its residents a new kind of test for COVID-19.

The tests are being donated by United Biomedical, a multinational biotech company whose executives, a married couple, happen to live part of the year in Telluride, the resort town that is also San Miguel’s county seat.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-tests-everyone-tiny-colorado-county/608590/

The only way to stop its spread is to test everyone and isolate those that are still infectious.

So it's dangerous enough to kill a huge number of people by spreading far and wide.

diseases?

as the media is making it out to be". I've seen way too much of this attitude on Facebook, and it's just going to make things considerably worse, at least in certain areas.

and people will see that hospitals are getting nailed.

It will spread faster. You can avoid sick people. They will stay home because they feel crappy. Well people will go out and spread it.

You can contract it with a single exposure, but it probably isn't strong enough for you to develop symptoms or develop it further. However, get exposed more than once or constantly, and you will contract it and have severe symptoms.

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Something like a litmus test that a person can do alone 10 times a day if they so desire. Last night Bill Gates on CNN said they have compared swabs done by medical professionals and swabs done by patients themselves and found no difference, so maybe home testing is something Bill & Co. are working on.


ETA: I don't know if any trouble could develop from people knowing their test results themselves rather than authorities controlling the test results.

Small initial exposure means fewer or no symptoms, while higher initial exposure produces more severe disease.

have no or only mild symptoms. Which means, this really isn't all that dangerous except that it is infecting huge numbers of people.