COVID-19: Who Are the Carriers? Make an Appointment Ask a Question Search Conditions Do you think only the people who are infected with the 2019 coronavirus are the carriers? Pulmonologist and ICU doctor, Ken Lyn-Kew, MD, explains what you need to know about people who don’t have any symptoms but are passing on the 2019 coronavirus (asymptomatic carriers). Related Videos Good Health and Hand Washing Travel Advice During Coronavirus COVID-19 Who Should Get Tested? How to Avoid the Coronavirus Facemasks Controversy: Who Really Needs Them? COVID-19 When to Call the Doctor How Social Distancing Will Flatten the Curve Young People Can Get COVID-19 COVID-19: What to Expect When You’re Recovering COVID-19: The Right Way to Put On and Take Off Cloth Masks Words from a Frontline Physician in New York City How National Jewish Health Expanded Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19 Helping Patients Improve After COVID-19 Returning to Care Safely Why Flu Shots Are Important During COVID-19 Rising to the Challenge Teaching and Caring for Ill Students Continues during COVID-19 Transcript Dr. Ken Lyn-Kew: Asymptomatic carriers are clearly a way that this spreads. Right? There is no ifs, ands, or buts about that anymore. And if you don't know that you have it, the only way to know that you don't pass it to somebody is to stay away from people that you can pass it to. And this goes back to the same things we talked about a couple of weeks ago when we met, wash your hands, clean around you, don't go out where you don't need to go out, don't touch your face, all those things, especially if you're asymptomatic. You might be asymptomatic, but you might leave this virus everywhere for other people to catch. Want to use this on your website? Fill out the content usage request form and then copy this code: