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Wendy Zuckerman

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Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Mark was put on this cramped bus for a few hours.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Eventually, they boarded this cargo plane that would fly them all back home.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Mark was sitting up the front, a little further away from the sick passengers, but he could still hear them coughing.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

And since this was a cargo plane, it wasn't designed for passengers, everyone on the flight, 170 people, were sharing two porta-potties.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Mark and some of the other passengers were eventually taken to Travis Air Force Base in California, where the U.S.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

government told them they had to stay in quarantine before they could go home.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

And it was at this point that Mark and the rest of the passengers were tested again for the virus.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

So after all that, Mark was now infected.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

And here's what's kind of bizarre, though.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Mark didn't feel sick.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

In fact, he felt perfectly fine.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Did you have any symptoms at all?

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Fever, a little cough?

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Like, were you expecting symptoms to come at some point?

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

Weird.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

So it's almost two months ago and you've never had symptoms.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

So Mark cleared the infection.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

He eventually tested negative and got out of quarantine.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

And this means that if he never got tested, he would have never known that he was infected.

Science Vs
Coronavirus: How Many Silent Spreaders Are There?

So how many people out there are like Mark?