Even among very old, most infected with COVID-19 show no symptoms for several days.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85657

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About half of residents in a long-term care skilled nursing facility in Washington state had no symptoms of COVID-19 coronavirus infection when they initially tested positive, researchers found.

Following a positive test in a healthcare worker,
facility-wide symptom assessments and testing for 76 residents found that
23 were positive for COVID-19,
and 13 of these residents were asymptomatic.

A week later, 10 of those 13 developed symptoms,
reported Anne Kimball, MD, of the CDC

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