Asymptomatic shares of infections

What proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections show no symptoms?

Anthony B. Masters
3 min readDec 18, 2021

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The claim ‘one in three infected people show no symptoms’ appears in government statements:

Around 1 in 3 people have coronavirus (COVID-19) without displaying any symptoms.

(Image: HM Government/Facebook)

We need to think, with care, about what such a claim could mean.

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Anthony B. Masters

This blog looks at the use of statistics in Britain and beyond. It is written by RSS Statistical Ambassador and Chartered Statistician @anthonybmasters.