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无症状传播的重要性是我们研究和干预新冠肺炎大流行的重要发现。在《无症状》（john Hopkins University Press, 2024）一书中，Joshua Weitz利用SARS-CoV-2自然历史的这一方面来讨论这场大流行的许多违反直觉的特征。在这篇文章中，我参与了书中的论点，并讨论了为什么无症状传播是传染病研究的一个关键维度。我探索了《无症状》中包含的思想，并将它们与进化病毒学和疾病生态学中的相关问题联系起来，包括认知的不确定性和毒力的进化。此外，我还评论了文本中更广泛的信息，包括科学知识与社会理解之间的差距。
On modes of disease transmission and the hidden shape of pandemics: A review of Asymptomatic by Joshua Weitz.
The importance of asymptomatic transmission was a key discovery in our efforts to study and intervene in the COVID-19 pandemic. In Asymptomatic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Joshua Weitz uses this aspect of SARS-CoV-2 natural history to discuss many counterintuitive characteristics of the pandemic. In this essay, I engage the arguments in the book, and discuss why asymptomatic transmission is such a critical dimension of the study of infectious diseases. I explore ideas contained within Asymptomatic and connect them to related issues in evolutionary virology and disease ecology, including epistemic uncertainty and the evolution of virulence. Furthermore, I comment on the broader messages in the text, including the gap between scientific knowledge and social understanding.
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Virus Evolution is a new Open Access journal focusing on the long-term evolution of viruses, viruses as a model system for studying evolutionary processes, viral molecular epidemiology and environmental virology.
The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for original research papers, reviews, commentaries and a venue for in-depth discussion on the topics relevant to virus evolution.
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