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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WHO just announced that asymptomatic spreading of CoronaVirus "Very Rare".  This sure seems like it should be a part of the decision making process.

[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html[/url][/quote]
Thank you for posting this. There have been similar results from different research organizations, but WHO announcing it is still important.  This will be a game changer.[/quote]

That's actually not what WHO announced. What WHO announced is that contact tracers traced most infections to people who eventually showed symptoms. If you infected somebody before you showed symptoms, and then you showed symptoms, you weren't asymptomatic, you were presymptomatic.[/quote]
Read it one more time. It literally says that both asymptomatic and presymptomatic infection is rare. Furthermore, we also know that majority of infected youth is asymptomatic.[/quote]

No, that's what the CNBC report says. And there's a lot of dispute about it.[/quote]
You may dispute all you want. But WHO says that asymptomatic and presymptomatic infection is rare. The fact that WHO says this is an indisputable fact. This may not be what you want to hear, but WHO literally said it. Read the link.[/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/coronavirus-updates.html#link-452d2061

[u][i]The W.H.O. walked back an earlier assertion that asymptomatic transmission is ‘very rare.’[/u]

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.

Scientists had sharply criticized the W.H.O. for creating confusion on the issue, given the far-ranging public policy implications. Governments around the world have recommended face masks and social distancing measures because of the risk of asymptomatic transmission.

A range of scientists said Ms. Kerkhove’s comments did not reflect the current scientific research.

“All of the best evidence suggests that people without symptoms can and do readily spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19,” scientists at the Harvard Global Health Institute said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Communicating preliminary data about key aspects of the coronavirus without much context can have tremendous negative impact on how the public and policymakers respond to the pandemic.”

A widely cited paper published in April suggested that people are most infectious about two days before the onset of symptoms, and estimated that 44 percent of new infections are a result of transmission from people who were not yet showing symptoms.

Ms. Kerkhove and other W.H.O. experts reiterated the importance of physical distancing, personal hygiene, testing, tracing, quarantine and isolation in controlling the pandemic.[/i][/quote]

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