1. Here is an up-to-date table of results from the Cambridge University #Covid19UK study of asymptomatics since the start of 2021 
2. Some key points about it:
3. The explanation of why this means the much repeated Government claim that “1 in 3 people with the virus has no symptoms” is a massive exaggeration was provided in this previous analysis of the Cambridge study: probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-ca…
4. In a paper we are near to completing we show that what MIGHT be true is that “1 in 3 people who test positive have no symptoms”. But, because of false positives, that’s very different to the claim that “1 in 3 people with the virus have no symptoms”
5. And a reminder that “1 in 3 people with the virus have no symptoms” is NOT the same as “1 in 3 people with no symptoms have the virus” (transposed conditional fallacy). But because many assume these are equal I suspect the messaging was deliberate to scare people even more
6. Here is a full blog posting that contains this thread about the Cambridge data plus additional information about the "1 in 3" claim probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-i…
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