{"id":4859,"date":"2020-06-09T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/who-walks-back-claim-about-very-rare-asymptomatic-coronavirus-transmission\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:16:00","slug":"who-walks-back-claim-about-very-rare-asymptomatic-coronavirus-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/who-walks-back-claim-about-very-rare-asymptomatic-coronavirus-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"#WHO walks back claim about \u2018very rare\u2019 asymptomatic coronavirus transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#WHO walks back claim about \u2018very rare\u2019 asymptomatic coronavirus transmission<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The World Health Organization on Tuesday walked back comments from a top official who said it was \u201cvery rare\u201d for someone to contract the coronavirus from an asymptomatic carrier.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome estimates of around 40 percent of transmission may be due to asymptomatic [cases], but those are from models. So I didn\u2019t include that in my answer yesterday but wanted to make sure that I made that clear,\u201d Maria van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist and technical lead on the pandemic, said during a news<\/a> conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Her comments a day earlier \u2014 when she told reporters, \u201cFrom the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual\u201d \u2014 gave ammunition to critics of lockdowns and social<\/a> distancing.<\/p>\n

But after other experts questioned her statement, van Kerkhove and WHO officials were singing a different tune on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Calling the controversy \u201ca misunderstanding,\u201d van Kerkhove said that during the news conference Monday, she was trying to respond to a journalist\u2019s question when she said asymptomatic transmission was \u201cvery rare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t stating a policy of WHO or anything like that,\u201d she said. \u201cWe do know that some people who are asymptomatic, or some people who do not have symptoms, can transmit the virus on.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not the \u201cintent of WHO to say there is a new or different policy,\u201d said Mike Ryan, head of emergency programs for WHO.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is still too much unknown about this virus and still too much unknown about its transmission dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan also said, however, that people app<\/a>ear to be at their most contagious when symptoms are at their worst.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow as we look at COVID-19, we have an infectious pathogen that is present in the upper airway for which the viral loads are peaking at the time you are just beginning to get sick,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The different definitions of what it means to be asymptomatic complicate matters, The Washington Post noted.<\/p>\n

Some infected people never show symptoms, and experts would consider those to be actual asymptomatic cases.<\/p>\n

But others only show symptoms later on and could be spreading the virus before those symptoms show themselves \u2014 and they would be considered \u201cpresymptomatic\u201d cases, the paper reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a mess. I don\u2019t know why they would say asymptomatic transmission is very rare when the truth is we simply don\u2019t know how frequent it is,\u201d Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, told the paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t change the facts we do know, which is that this virus is very transmissible and is very hard to combat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keith Neal, a professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at Britain\u2019s University of Nottingham, told Canada\u2019s Global News that the question of how large a role asymptomatic transmission plays in new infections was unclear,<\/p>\n

But what is known is that people with symptoms are responsible for most of the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis reinforces the importance of any person who has any of the symptoms of COVID-19 arranges a test \u2026 as soon as possible and isolating until they get their test result,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the US, there have been more than 2 million cases of coronavirus and more than 113,000 deaths to date.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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