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Originally Posted by riverfish1
This is not a conflicting report on asymptomatic carrier transmission. It's a 'the WHO doesn't know'. Conflicting reports would be someone stating that asymptomatic carries don't transmit the virus.
And yes, I didn't believe you and still don't believe you. As others have pointed out, this feels very much like you working from your worldview and finding evidence.
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Someone from the WHO came out with a statement saying that asymptomatic transmission was very rare. Then the WHO corrected that and said "we don't actually know".
That's conflicting reports. At least read the part I quoted.
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A top World Health Organization official clarified on Tuesday that scientists have not determined yet how frequently people with asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 pass the disease on to others, a day after suggesting that such spread is “very rare.”
Because I was aware of this, I asked Ianww for studies showing that asymptomatics can actually spread it. I'll need to go back and look at what he linked to, but the studies Soah posted deal with pre-symptomatics.
From a little more of that article:
At one of the WHO’s thrice-weekly press briefings Monday, Van Kerkhove noted that when health officials review cases that are initially reported to be asymptomatic, “we find out that many have really mild disease.” There are some infected people who are “truly asymptomatic,” she said, but countries that are doing detailed contact tracing are “not finding secondary transmission onward” from those cases. “It’s very rare,” she said.
Another article on the topic:
WHO walks back comments on asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus
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