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8 CORONAVIRUS
“We have a number of
reports from countries who
are doing very detailed
contact tracing – they are
following asymptomatic
cases, they are following
contacts and they are not
f i n d i n g s e c o n d a r y
transmission onward, it's
very rare,” Dr. Maria Van
Kerkhove said during a
news briefing. “Much of that
is not published in the
literature.”
“We're constantly looking
at this data, and we're trying
to get more information from
countries to truly answer this
question,” she added. “It still
appears to be rare that an
asymptomatic individual
T h e W o r l d H e a l t h
Organization's double pivot
on asymptomatic spread of
COVID-19 was a result of
being beholden to "Chinese
talking points" over science,
Health and Human Services
Secretary Alex Azar said
Wednesday on Newsmax
TV.
actually transmits onward.”
Speaking during the
briefing, the head of the
WHO, Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, warned that
the coronavirus pandemic
was worsening globally,
even as the situation in
Europe was improving.
Tedros noted that about 75
percent of cases reported to
the U.N. health agency on
Sunday came from 10
countries in the Americas
and South Asia.
He noted that over
100,000 cases have been
reported in nine of the past
10 days — and the 136,000
" A b s o l u t e l y w e r e
c o n c e r n e d a b o u t
asymptomatic spread," Azar
told Newsmax TV's Emerald
Robinson in an exclusive
interview on "The Chris
Salcedo Show." "We've got a
fairly large percent of people
that are testing positive who
are asymptomatic.”
Trump’s News
Coronavirus: Asymptomatic
spread 'appears to be rare,'
WHO official says
By James Rogers | Fox News
cases reported Sunday was a daily updated death toll
the biggest number so far. after it had passed 34,000,
the third-highest in the
Tedros said most countries world, behind the U.S. and
in Africa were still seeing an Britain.
increase in cases, including
in new geographic areas, “More than six months into
even though most countries this pandemic, this is not the
on the continent had fewer time for any country to take
than 1,000 cases. its foot off the pedal,” Tedros
said during the news
“At the same time, we're conference. “This is the time
encouraged that several for countries to continue to
countries around the world work hard.”
are seeing positive signs,”
Tedros said. “In these As of Monday afternoon,
countries, the biggest threat over 7 million coronavirus
now is complacency.” cases have been diagnosed
worldwide, with over 1.9
Around the world, the million of them in the U.S.,
coronavirus has killed over according to Johns Hopkins
400,000 people, with the toll University data.
rising by thousands every
day. The virus continued to The Associated Press
rage in places such as contributed to this report.
Brazil, which over the
weekend stopped reporting
HHS' Azar:
We're Still
Worried
About
Asymptomat
ic Spread
By Eric Mack | newsmax
the global coronavirus
pandemic was "rare," but
A z a r s u g g e s t e d i t s
m i s l e a d i n g a n d
contradictory statements
have origins in "Chinese
talking points."
"So we don't know what the
WHO was thinking with what
The "viral load" of droplets they said," Azar continued.
from asymptomatic COVID- "There was no evidence or
19 positive cases "can be data behind what they said,
just as strong as somebody except frankly, they were
who has symptoms," Azar repeating the Chinese
added. talking point the WHO had
The WHO had to pull back been repeating for quite
on a statement that sometime back in January
asymptomatic spread amid and February.”