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Hauler

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Shinkicker

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‘We don’t actually have that answer yet’: WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic spread of Covid-19

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.”

The clarification comes after the WHO’s original comments incited strong pushback from outside public health experts, who suggested the agency had erred, or at least miscommunicated, when it said people who didn’t show symptoms were unlikely to spread the virus.

Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on the Covid-19 pandemic, made it very clear Tuesday that the actual rates of asymptomatic transmission aren’t yet known.
 

Shinkicker

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“I was trying to articulate what we know” from a very limited number of studies, Van Kerkhove said Tuesday. “In that, I used the phrase ‘very rare.’ It’s a misunderstanding to state that globally, asymptomatic transmission is very rare.”

While true asymptomatic transmission might be uncommon, what’s likely to be more common is presymptomatic transmission. Presymptomatic transmission also occurs with the flu. Studies have shown that people with COVID-19 can infect others anywhere from 1 to 3 days before they get sick, Van Kerkhove said.

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Asymtomatic and presymptomatic would look the same up until symptoms start which is days after infection and being contagious. So the WHO statements are very misleading to the public, imo.
 

tang

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“I was trying to articulate what we know” from a very limited number of studies, Van Kerkhove said Tuesday. “In that, I used the phrase ‘very rare.’ It’s a misunderstanding to state that globally, asymptomatic transmission is very rare.”

While true asymptomatic transmission might be uncommon, what’s likely to be more common is presymptomatic transmission. Presymptomatic transmission also occurs with the flu. Studies have shown that people with COVID-19 can infect others anywhere from 1 to 3 days before they get sick, Van Kerkhove said.

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Asymtomatic and presymptomatic would look the same up until symptoms start which is days after infection and being contagious. So the WHO statements are very misleading to the public, imo.
Geez.. they don’t know shit do they?
My question is if asymptomatic spread is rare and the virus doesn’t live on surface, they how did all these people get it???
 

Hauler

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Geez.. they don’t know shit do they?
My question is if asymptomatic spread is rare and the virus doesn’t live on surface, they how did all these people get it???
99.4% didn't get it at all.

Yet.

99.97% didn't die.

Yet.
 
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ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude I guess the closest thing in the states would be an "accident investigator" whose car has white and orange lights instead of blue and red police lights. They can't make arrests or anything like that but technically they work FOR the police departments and not WITH like in the special constable situation the beard is describing.

"Accident investigators" is what they're called in Florida at least. You cowboys might call them "steer rounders" or some other dumb shit in Texas...
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude I guess the closest thing in the states would be an "accident investigator" whose car has white and orange lights instead of blue and red police lights. They can't make arrests or anything like that but technically they work FOR the police departments and not WITH like in the special constable situation the beard is describing.

"Accident investigators" is what they're called in Florida at least. You cowboys might call them "steer rounders" or some other dumb shit in Texas...
In the case of special constables they can make arrests but seeing as their unarmed, good luck with that.
 

ThatOneDude

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ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude I guess the closest thing in the states would be an "accident investigator" whose car has white and orange lights instead of blue and red police lights. They can't make arrests or anything like that but technically they work FOR the police departments and not WITH like in the special constable situation the beard is describing.

"Accident investigators" is what they're called in Florida at least. You cowboys might call them "steer rounders" or some other dumb shit in Texas...
We have constables in Texas.
 

Eric Trump

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do you guys think it is safe for me to go to a bar? We have had 1533 infected, 28 dead and 1404 cured. How big of a risk is it?