What is the burden of asymptomatic coronavirus infections?

• Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,
• Ziad A. Memish,
• Kauthar J. Altawfi,
• Qiuwei Pan,
• Patricia Schlagenhauf

Affiliations

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq

Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Ziad A. Memish

King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Kauthar J. Altawfi

Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Qiuwei Pan

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Patricia Schlagenhauf

Corresponding author.; WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, University of Zürich, Switzerland