Difference between Covid 19 and being infected with Sars-CoV-2

[EvMetro]

Anybody know the difference between having COVID-19 and being infected with Sars-CoV-2?


If you are asymptomatic, you do not have COVID-19. The worst that can be said is that you’re infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If you’re not actually ill, you don’t have the disease. This is one factor that differentiates a person who died from the illness compared to someone who died with a positive test result, meaning the cause of death was completely different, such as heart disease, automobile accident or a gunshot wound.

 

[Likkmee]

 

[d0gbreath]

Sars-CoV-2 is the name of the virus that gives you Covid-19, the disease.

Any questions?

 

[ClaireH]

Anybody know the difference between having COVID-19 and being infected with Sars-CoV-2?


If you are asymptomatic, you do not have COVID-19. The worst that can be said is that you’re infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If you’re not actually ill, you don’t have the disease. This is one factor that differentiates a person who died from the illness compared to someone who died with a positive test result, meaning the cause of death was completely different, such as heart disease, automobile accident or a gunshot wound.

I learned the distinction with reviewing a couple of journal submissions and all papers using SARS-CoV-2 to denote papers relative to studying the virus itself, while COVID-19 references actual cases testing positive for virus and patients given the COVID-19 identification.

Thanks for the important elaboration

 

[EvMetro]

It is important to know the difference when you read statistics.

 

[Likkmee]

C'mon man. It's just business

 

[EvMetro]

I learned the distinction with reviewing a couple of journal submissions and all papers using SARS-CoV-2 to denote papers relative to studying the virus itself, while COVID-19 references actual cases testing positive for virus and patients given the COVID-19 identification.

Thanks for the important elaboration

The distinction is something that lefties don't want to talk about, since it was exploited in order to inflate the number of covid deaths.