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WestlinnDuck
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Another WHO/CDC phu*ck up. Why did conservatives here on the Tug have a better idea of what should have happened. Toss in the same "elites" that hate football but love riots and want to arrest beauty salon owners but not rioters burning down cities.
The W.H.O. Just Gave Us Another Great Reason to End the Coronavirus Lockdowns RIGHT NOW
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/06/08/the-w-h-o-just-gave-us-another-great-reason-to-end-the-coronavirus-lockdowns-right-now-n507780
It seems like we’ve been getting a lot of mixed signals during the course of the coronavirus pandemic, so, honestly, I’m not sure what to believe, but the World Health Organization (WHO) is now saying that asymptomatic people with the coronavirus are not driving the spread of the virus.
The CDC currently believes that 35% of all coronavirus infections are asymptomatic.
Researchers have previously argued that containing the virus would be extraordinarily difficult because of asymptomatic infections, but WHO officials no longer believe it’s the main way the disease spreads.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the head of the emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the WHO.
Van Kerkhove believes that governments should focus on the detection and isolation of infected people, and those they came in contact with.
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she added. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.”
Even CNBC acknowledges that if asymptomatic spread “proves to not be a main driver of coronavirus transmission, the policy implications could be tremendous.”
Asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus was previously used to justify social distancing.
“These findings also suggest that to control the pandemic, it might not be enough for only persons with symptoms to limit their contact with others because persons without symptoms might transmit infection,” a CDC study claimed back in April.
The W.H.O. Just Gave Us Another Great Reason to End the Coronavirus Lockdowns RIGHT NOW
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/06/08/the-w-h-o-just-gave-us-another-great-reason-to-end-the-coronavirus-lockdowns-right-now-n507780
It seems like we’ve been getting a lot of mixed signals during the course of the coronavirus pandemic, so, honestly, I’m not sure what to believe, but the World Health Organization (WHO) is now saying that asymptomatic people with the coronavirus are not driving the spread of the virus.
The CDC currently believes that 35% of all coronavirus infections are asymptomatic.
Researchers have previously argued that containing the virus would be extraordinarily difficult because of asymptomatic infections, but WHO officials no longer believe it’s the main way the disease spreads.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the head of the emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the WHO.
Van Kerkhove believes that governments should focus on the detection and isolation of infected people, and those they came in contact with.
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she added. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.”
Even CNBC acknowledges that if asymptomatic spread “proves to not be a main driver of coronavirus transmission, the policy implications could be tremendous.”
Asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus was previously used to justify social distancing.
“These findings also suggest that to control the pandemic, it might not be enough for only persons with symptoms to limit their contact with others because persons without symptoms might transmit infection,” a CDC study claimed back in April.
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Politics. Stadium full of people means Inslee was wrong. He now had to retroactively justify his decision.
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Infectious Disease
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