Asymptomatics, what impact in the fight against coronavirus?

Who are the healthy carriers of covid-19? A person can be infected with the coronavirus, develop the virus, but be asymptomatic, that is, not show symptoms. This is what we call a healthy carrier since he can still contaminate those around him. The asymptomatic are among us, take care!

Having the virus in the body and living without any particular discomfort is possible. It has been almost a year since Guinea was hit by this pandemic caused by the coronavirus.

Most often symptoms

In most cases, when a person is infected with the virus, they develop symptoms. These clinical signs vary from one organism to another: fever, headache, sore throat, loss of taste and smell, dry cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, chills, digestive problems with or without nausea or even conjunctivitis.

Why do some people not have symptoms?

According to Doctor Saidou Sidibé, head doctor of the covid-19 care department in the commune of Ratoma, it is still very sensitive to answer this question, “It's a little difficult to answer, but I think it's relatively due to each individual's immune response, that is to say the ability of each person to defend themselves against diseases. So there are some who have a very developed immune system, which, for reasons x, can allow them not to develop symptoms. On the other hand, those who have a failing immune system are, most often, those who are prone to developing symptoms and associated with very serious complications,» tries to answer the head doctor of the covid-19 care department.

Transmission of the virus by an asymptomatic person

The question of transmission of the virus by an asymptomatic person is particularly important at the moment, in order to best adapt prevention and control measures against the covid-19 pandemic.

“Many scientific teams are therefore trying to find out if a person carrying covid-19 who does not show symptoms can excrete viral particles. If so, it is as contagious as sick people. The stakes of this question are important because if asymptomatic people are not isolated, they can unknowingly transmit the virus to others, who are likely to develop a serious form of the disease. indicates our source.

In the current epidemic context and while waiting for a vaccine, the country's health authorities insist on the importance of wearing a mask and barrier gestures. This includes protecting oneself from contamination by people who are infected but do not present any visible manifestation of the virus, the famous asymptomatic patients.

« The time has come for the sick without knowing it, that is to say asymptomatic and all the more dangerous for carrying the virus and living in the same environment as people who do not have covid-19. The national health security agency and the government must develop a general mass screening plan for the population on a case-by-case basis to hope to overcome the virus. Otherwise, those who are asymptomatic for covid-19 will always contribute to throwing away all the efforts made so far in the fight against the coronavirus,” pleads an infectious disease doctor.

For his part, Doctor Saidou Sidibé, head doctor of the covid-19 care service in the commune of Ratoma“As long as we cannot remove asymptomatic people from circulation, we will never be able to put an end to this covid-19 epidemic”

There are many of them in Guinea

Asymptomatic patients keep the population in a state of fear, even though there are undoubtedly very many of them in Guinea showing no physical manifestation of contamination. Being asymptomatic of the coronavirus makes it very difficult to fight the disease.

Amadou Dari DIALLO