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Originally Posted by jyl
Having antibodies is not the same thing as being actively infected.
Asymptomatic infected persons shed virus, despite being, well, asymptomatic. Something about them makes the disease so mild that they don’t notice anything wrong. But they are shedding virus all the same, for the first phase of their infection, until their immune systems get control of the infection. There is a second phase when they are recovering and not shedding much, again they don’t know anything is going on. Afterwards, they will have antibodies which will be how they learn they ever had the disease.
Bummer to come in contact with them when they are shedding.
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Bold mine. (and my point. Although I would strike the word "much." )
How I would say it: There is a second phase when they are carrying the virus but their immune response has stopped the shedding of the live virus.