WHO: Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus appears to be ‘very rare’

The New York Post ^ | June 8, 2020 | Bob Fredericks

[Texas Fossil]

People who have the coronavirus but don’t display symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the pandemic, World Health Organization officials said Monday.

“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 the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing in Geneva, CNBC reported.

“It’s very rare.”

Health officials warned early on that asymptomatic carriers could be fueling the spread by stealth — but Van Kerkhove said that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is not the main way the virus was being transmitted.

“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,” she said.

[Texas Fossil]

"WHO experts" ? Who would have thought the experts were this Wrong? (the UN wrong? what a thought. Head shake.)

I look so forward to being past all the BS related to this. The Media's responsibility for this is HUGE.

Let's get life back together. And put the perps of this hysteria out of office. And expose the lying media who promoted this crap.

[RBW in PA]

Anyone who is capable of critical thinking knew this virus was a scam within two to three weeks. Too bad the education systems no longer teaches that skill.

[Sicon]

Add this to the veritable pile of inaccuracies (or outright lies) we’ve been fed about this virus... What a joke.

[Sicon]

And would this not suggest that wearing a mask is ENTIRELY unnecessary if you do not have any symptoms? Yeah, I think it does (not that it will deter the mask nazis in the slightest...).

[TomGuy]

So, then, why are there so many asymptomatic cases in state prisons and detention facilities, but few actual hospitalizations?

The ‘residents’ are contracting it somehow, some way, from some one.

[Buckeye McFrog]

bbb…….bbbbu…...bbb…….bbbut Debbie Birx has shown us 4,326 indecipherable charts and graphs which say otherwise.

[I want the USA back]

So we lost 3 months because these idiots didn’t know?
We were denied the right to go out without getting arrested. Funerals were not allowed for the dead (notice that george floyd got a full funeral with all the trimmings?)

[Flick Lives]

The very same scientists who loudly proclaimed 3 million would die in the US are now furiously backpedaling in an attempt to rewrite their own history.

[mad_as_he$$]

Dear WHO;

Are you lying now or were you lying then?

[the OlLine Rebel]

When they say “asymptomatic”, what does that mean?

Does it mean strictly people who ARE infected but show zero symptoms, ever? Does it mean they are immune and mere carriers? Does it mean the period of incubation before people show symptoms?

[Socon-Econ]

Viruses are known to spread when symptoms are just developing and thus may not be recognized. But where is the evidence that ANY virus in this family of viruses has ever spread asymtomatically, i.e., as in Typhoid mary.

[Chaguito]

700 years later, the “experts” still can’t pin down how bubonic plague could have spread so rapidly.

[the OlLine Rebel]

He’s getting multiple state funerals, as our local radio host called it.

But, they ARE wearing the masks!

Which, BTW, is perfect for Antifa garb as well as common thugs and looters.

[exDemMom]

Wow, this really highlights how much of a lie is the narrative that Covid-19 spread simultaneously and asymptomatically to millions upon millions of people back in January, in total defiance of everything known about infectious disease transmission.

I am glad that the studies that determine how Covid-19 spreads are being conducted and analyzed. This information is essential to containing the spread. The more we know, the more we are able to focus control efforts on strategies that work.

And for the people who are jumping on this as a chance to prove your narrative that Covid-19 is a hoax: it is not. What it shows is that officials seek more information and adjust as appropriate.

If a hurricane center is predicted to hit Wilmington, NC but instead hits Jacksonville, NC, do you call the weather forecasters liars? Do you deem the hurricane a hoax because it didn’t hit exactly in Wilmington as predicted by the models? No. I think that most people understand that weather forecasting is a process guided by a number of factors. Well, so is disease forecasting. No one can look into the future and know exactly what will happen. No one knew anything about Covid-19 when it first emerged, and it takes time to gather and analyze data and do the appropriate experiments. All the epidemiologists and related experts were able to do initially is apply the established principles of disease transmission. Now they can refine their forecasts and strategies since more information is becoming available.

[Socon-Econ]

So, then, why are there so many asymptomatic cases in state prisons and detention facilities, but few actual hospitalizations?
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Possible explanation: The asymptomatic inmates caught it from inmates or prison workers who did have symptoms well before the disease was identified as a threat.

[The Sentient Sheep]

Our schools have been intentionally dumping droves of uneducated waste products into America every year for decades. No one can read analytically or do math. All are complacent now to get their information on important issues via 30 second sound bites and rapidly flashing images. The critical thinkers who ask the good questions are now portrayed as the enemy.

[Texas Fossil]

Agree.

[Texas Fossil]

The virus was real, many died, but not even close to those stated in the news.

The virus was real, but the news coverage of the “pandemic” was hype and fake news by the media. Done to support their ComDem partners in crime. Looking at the November Elections.

[jerod]

Another day, another WHO lie exposed... They are also saying claims of the virus 'weakening' are not trustworthy, but the virus is essentially weakening.

Otherwise these large protest would have led to skyrocketing covid numbers... But these protest have not led to increases in the infected... So thanks to these protesters they have inadvertently proven that staying 'locked down' is not sensible. Next up... Massive Trump rallies and let the campaign begin. First national commercial for Trump... Nancy and Schumer taking a knee with the voice over... "Do you really want to get rid of your police department, because these guys do and they're taking a knee in support of the thugs."

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, it is all about their agenda.

Fouchi is in it for the money and his drug manufacturer friend’s money. The other “experts” were probably all bought.

The ComDems are in it to create chaos to destroy President Trump.

There is nothing they won’t do to accomplish that. They are supported by many globalist power freaks like George Soros.