To the dumb as rocks leftist and GWB... Who could not understand that the models sucked and could never be fit to the data.... many of you were all such douchebags to the smart people here who can think in systems. We told you this was bullshit... . I told you it must to be the sick who were spreading. I told you this was clusters and super spreader... and healthy people spread to 1 person or zero on average... Yet douche bags like nine shits... were calling me selfish... It was so fucking obvious to a person who can think... -- the WHO says that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is “very rare.” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asy...-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections. Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Others might not develop symptoms until days after they were actually infected. Preliminary evidence from the earliest outbreaks indicated that the virus could spread from person-to-person contact, even if the carrier didn’t have symptoms. But WHO officials now say that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is not the main way it’s being transmitted. “From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters. “It’s very rare.” Government responses should focus on detecting and isolating infected people with symptoms, and tracking anyone who might have come into contact with them, Van Kerkhove said. She acknowledged that some studies have indicated asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread in nursing homes and in household settings. More research and data are needed to “truly answer” the question of whether the coronavirus can spread widely through asymptomatic carriers, Van Kerkhove added. “We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she said. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.” If asymptomatic spread proves to not be a main driver of coronavirus transmission, the policy implications could be tremendous. A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published on April 1 cited the “potential for presymptomatic transmission” as a reason for the importance of social distancing. “These findings also suggest that to control the pandemic, it might not be enough for only persons with symptoms to limit their contact with others because persons without symptoms might transmit infection,” the CDC study said. To be sure, asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread of the virus appears to still be happening, Van Kerkhove said but remains rare. That finding has important implications for how to screen for the virus and limit its spread. “What we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic cases,” Van Kerkhove said. “If we actually followed all of the symptomatic cases, isolated those cases, followed the contacts and quarantined those contacts, we would drastically reduce” the outbreak.
would not expect an apology or even an acknowledgment from you.. even though you were insulting us for months on this.. .
I await the WHO retraction just as they did w/masks. Seeing how Donnie says they're a CCP front and all.
WHO officials do not recommend mask wearing for healthy members of the general population. They obviously... knew the data.... they were about to make public regarding asumptomatic people rarely spreading Covid.
Um, no, the UN is headquartered in NYC. If the author wants the UN to be headquartered in Geneva, I say go for it. Turn the NYC UN building into affordable housing. Let's get the Swiss to take some responsibility in the world for once, instead of the citizens of NYC having to pay the heavy price of those diplomats robbing valuable parking space from the city. The UN building in Geneva is just that...Extra office space.
But this was from the WHO. I believe the WHO is headquarted in Geneva... I think the author was saying... the WHO, from its headquarters, says contact tracing data shows asymptomatic people very rarely spread the virus. So all we have to do to control is to isolate those with symptoms and trace their contacts. Hence the shutdown of the low risk healthy people is and was unnecessary.
except low risk people do and often become symptomatic, so your thesis is still wrong. And as I said in my 1st post: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asy...-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html Preliminary evidence from the earliest outbreaks indicated that the virus could spread from person-to-person contact, even if the carrier didn’t have symptoms. But WHO officials now say that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is not the main way it’s being transmitted.
you just proved my point again... If you are feeling sick stay home. If you are feeling very sick, go to the hosptial. If you are healthy, (not sick) and in the low risk group... you never should have been locked down once the hospitals are empty. From a policy standpoint... This virus could be controlled by testing and tracing those with symptoms.... That is why the curves look pretty much the same everywhere in the 1st world .. whether locked down or not... --- “What we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic cases,” Van Kerkhove said. “If we actually followed all of the symptomatic cases, isolated those cases, followed the contacts and quarantined those contacts, we would drastically reduce” the outbreak.
WHO has no credibility anymore since they first said human to human transmission is unlikely or rare... They should be defunded and not the police haha