Dr. Kerkhove of WHO Comments on Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases!

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, said in a press briefing Monday evening that asymptomatic individuals are less likely to transmit SARS-CoV-2 than individuals with symptoms.

Kerkhove also acknowledged that asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread have been staples of past studies modeling transmission dynamics in nursing homes and household settings. She cited a "number of countries" reporting detailed contact tracing results, showing secondary transmission is a very rare circumstance. Much of this data, she added, has not been published.

She stressed the importance that countries conducting contact tracing provide more data to help "truly answer this question."

"It still appears to be rare that an symptomatic individual transmits onward," Kerkhove said. "When we go actually go back and say how many them were truly asymptomatic, we find out that many have really mild disease."

A recent study on SARS-CoV-2 testing in a long term care facility found that over half of residents with positive test results were asymptomatic at the time of testing. What role these residents played in spread isn't certain, and there may be factors such as viral load that make asymptomatic cases more or less important in spread based on setting.

In another recent study, based on contact tracing in Taiwan, investigators reviewed 2761 close contacts of 100 SARS-CoV-2 positive patients (5.5% were household contacts, 2.8% were non-household family contacts, and 25.3% were health care contacts). Ultimately, 22 secondary cases were identified and interestingly, none of the secondary cases were related to the 9 asymptomatic index cases.

The statement made headlines, though it was already theorized that pre-symptomatic transmission might be more critical to spread than asymptomatic transmission. Individuals might also self-report an asymptomatic case if they have mild symptoms.

Joe's still in that basement!

 Cartoon by Gary Varvel with a couple of changes by me.

What if Biden wins. What will happen next?

 

What would America look like, after January 2021, if the Democrats steal an election?

Better yet, what would Biden do first thing out of the gate????

Open borders for all with free healthcare. (For the poor, uneducated and disease ridden millions). Note that this act alone will also downgrade those honest to God American's quality of care. Tough luck. The state would look at such a move, as insuring a compliant and willing foreign population that would always vote who they were told to vote for.

Eliminate the Electoral College. Once accomplished, the popular vote would always insure that the Democrats would win. Why? Well, only a handful states such as NY and California alone, could dictate the winner in any future election. Forever.

Reinstate the universal healthcare mandate ! – You either get insured or you pay anyway. After all the Socialist States of America cannot trust you a mere citizen to do the right thing.

Raise taxes on corporations right through the roof. Maybe up to 86% - So, as Ross Perot once quipped, that 'sucking sound' you hear will be yet another corporate exodus, out of the country and on to foreign shores. Ya say you want a job? Consider relocating to Ireland, sucker!

Begin universal gun confiscation – Those perky assault rifles and handguns would need to go! After all, a defenseless population is a compliant population. (That's just the opposite of saying an armed population is a polite population). But, what do I know.

Begin limiting or rearranging the meaning of the first and second amendments – Start 'realigning' those words that give perhaps too much power to the proletariat, aka a word once defined as the lowest class of citizens in ancient Rome. Why? Because, that's what you all will be. There will be the State and then there's you, you poor slob... Oh, and that concept called Rule of Law will become the Rule of State – just like what we seem in Communist China! Actually, just like we are now seeing at Facebook!

Begin the process of tearing down the military to very low levels, so that America will be a lot like the Ukraine is today – You know, easy to invade. Just ask Putin.

Bend at the waist to China and to Russia as far as trade agreements – you know, like you're gonna give that leader a good blow job, while we would be getting it in the ass!

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