WHO Walks Back Claim That Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus Is ‘Very Rare’

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The World Health Organization is scrambling to clarify its claim that transmissions of the coronavirus by people who never developed symptoms is “very rare.”

WHO’s statement on Monday sent shock waves throughout the world, much of which has been locked down for months in fear of the virus being spread by people who showed no signs of illness.

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO infectious disease epidemiologist, has now said that there had been “misunderstandings” about her recent comments.

Fox News reports: In a Facebook Live video, Van Kerkhove said asymptomatic people can in fact spread the virus, though the degree to which they can is unknown.

“We do know that some people who are asymptomatic or some people who don’t have symptoms can transmit the virus on,” she said. “What we need to better understand is how many people in the population don’t have symptoms and, separately, how many of those individuals go on to transmit to others.”

She said she was referring to two or three studies when she made her statement on Monday.

“In that I used the phrase ‘very rare,’ and I think that’s a misunderstanding to state that asymptomatic transmission globally is very rare,” she said. “What I was referring to is a subset of studies.”

Some modeling groups estimate about 40 percent of virus transmission may be due to asymptomatic people, she said. Van Kerkhove did not include that figure on Monday but wanted to make sure she included it in her clarification.

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  1. That claim was the Key reason the world shut down the planet. I want some blood for that. Kill the WHO. Send the military to arrest these international criminals. They were saying it can live on a surface and there were typhoid marys running around spreading everything. My God! I am pissed.

    • Exactly and irs not about China it’s all about the lying opportunistic frauds trying to maximise profits for themselves and their class .

  2. Transparent as plastic bags Mob of money grabbing frauds who will say whatever they’re told is correct according to the Accountant .

  3. Editors of The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine: Pharmaceutical Companies are so Financially Powerful They Pressure us to Accept Papers
    June 5, 2020 5:24 pm

    Philippe Douste-Blazy, MD, is a cardiologist and former French Health Minister who served as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations. He was a candidate in 2017 for Director of the World Health Organization. In a videotaped interview on May 24, 2020, Dr. Douste-Blazy provided insight into how a series of negative hydroxychloroquine studies got published in prestigious medical journals. He revealed that at a recent Chatham House top secret, closed door meeting attended by experts only, the editors of both, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine expressed their exasperation citing the pressures put on them by pharmaceutical companies. He states that each of the editors used the word “criminal” to describe the erosion of science. He quotes Dr. Richard Horton who bemoaned the current state of science: “If this continues, we are not going to be able to publish any more clinical research data because pharmaceutical companies are so financially powerful; they are able to pressure us to accept papers that are apparently methodologically perfect but their conclusion is what pharmaceutical companies want.”Say no more .

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