Symptomatic vs. Asymptomatic COVID - Janice Blanchard, MD, PhD

Janice Blanchard, MD, PhD explains the difference between symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID.

Black doctors, nurses and researchers dispel misinformation and provide accessible facts about the #COVID #vaccines in this FAQ video series.

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TRANSCRIPT:

You can have a lot of different symptoms of COVID. Sometimes symptoms can be really severe where people will be very short of breath. They'll need to be put on a ventilator. Their blood pressure may drop, many of them die.

And then there's a whole group of people that will have COVID and have no idea that they have it and that's asymptomatic COVID. Those patients, you know, we are aren't—we worry about the people who don't have symptoms, because what they can do is spread it to other people who are at risk of getting really severe symptoms.