In less than 24 hours, WHO completely walks back their statement. Coronavirus Live Updates: W.H.O. Walks Back Claim That Asymptomatic Transmission is Rare https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/coronavirus-updates.html A top expert at the World Health Organization on Tuesday walked back her earlier assertion that transmission of the coronavirus by people who do not have symptoms is “very rare.” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who made the original comment at a W.H.O. briefing on Monday, said that it was based on just two or three studies and that it was a “misunderstanding” to say asymptomatic transmission is rare globally. “I was just responding to a question, I wasn’t stating a policy of W.H.O. or anything like that,” she said. Dr. Van Kerkhove said that the estimates of transmission from people without symptoms come primarily from models, which may not provide an accurate representation. “That’s a big open question, and that remains an open question,” she said.
This is not just a case of Maria Van Kerkhove walking back a statement. The Who wrote this in their June 5th circular titled... Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19 "Comprehensive studies on transmission from asymptomatic individuals are difficult to conduct, but the available evidence from contact tracing reported by Member States suggests that asymptomatically-infected individuals are much less likely to transmit the virus than those who develop symptoms. Among the available published studies, some have described occurrences of transmission from people who did not have symptoms.(21,25-32) For example, among 63 asymptomatically-infected individuals studied in China, there was evidence that 9 (14%) infected another person.(31) Furthermore, among two studies which carefully investigated secondary transmission from cases to contacts, one found no secondary transmission among 91 contacts of 9 asymptomatic cases,(33) while the other reported that 6.4% of cases were attributable to pre-symptomatic transmission.(32) The available data, to date, on onward infection from cases without symptoms comes from a limited number of studies with small samples that are subject to possible recall bias and for which fomite transmission cannot be ruled out."
A bunch of silly nonsense. Again I ask...If the people had no symptoms, why were they getting tested when the tests were so hard to come by? The W.H.O. is who again? WANKERS!
The WHO the fucking WHO man. John Entwistle "We became rich later than I expected. Now I'm too old to enjoy my money." Gloucestershire, January 5-6, 1978. I known how you feel John.