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Comment
. 2021 Sep 21;118(38):e2114054118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2114054118.

Asymptomatic infection is the pandemic's dark matter

David N Fisman  1 , Ashleigh R Tuite  2
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Asymptomatic infection is the pandemic's dark matter

David N Fisman et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Competing interest statement: D.N.F. serves on advisory boards of Seqirus, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer, and Astrazeneca vaccines, and consults for the Ontario Nurses Association, Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, JP Morgan-Chase, WE Foundation, and Farallon Capital, outside the submitted work.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Biases encountered in the study of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Blue circles represent truly asymptomatic infections, while diagonally shaded circles represent presymptomatic infections. Red circles represent symptomatic infections. The nature and direction of biases in estimation of the percentage of infections that are truly asymptomatic, as represented in this figure, is described in the text.
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