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by certera 2266 days ago
> If you want to find an attenuated strain you have to look in people with mild symptoms

Shouldn't we be looking at people with no symptoms? I know this is not ideal as we're likely only testing symptomatic people.

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Yes we want to test asymptomatic people too. Some countries like Germany and South Korea are doing are better job of testing widely and so they have many more mild/asymptomatic samples that can be screened.