Experts question WHO's latest assessment which says people with no symptoms rarely spread the virus
for clarification, a WHO spokesman refused to give an immediate comment, saying a Facebook live session for public and media would be held later in the day.
If the WHO’s new assessment becomes accepted, it will radically change many of the assumptions made about the virus that has so far killed more than 400,000 people around the world. to NPR, that the virus spreads rapidly in part because of asymptomatic people, which make up as much as 25 percent of the infected. said “presymptomatic transmission is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of secondary cases.
“A growing body of results shows that people who are asymptomatic appear to have the same viral load as symptomatic cases,” Gigi Gronvall, an immunologist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said in an interview in“If you're able to transmit the virus while asymptomatic, it allows for a lot more community spread.”
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