45 Second Twitter Video Clip of Dr. Fauci Saying. ".... asympomatic spread is rare and historically not a driver of outbreaks. Symptomatic people drive outbreaks."
Video clip, 45 seconds in duration, at link. The date of original recording is unknown. A Tweeter on the thread commented that Fauci's remarks in the video were made, "During sars cov 1."
Transcript of Fauci's comments below.
https://twitter.com/MaykelMatias/status/1302442308701429760
"To just add one thing that seems to get lost in that question is that, as Bob said and I agree, we would really like to see the data because if there really is asymptomatic transmission it impacts certain policies that you do regarding screening etc.
But the one thing historically people need to realize, that even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks.
The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person. Even if there's a rare asymptomatic person that might transmit, an epidemic is not driven by asymptomatic carriers" ~ Dr. Fauci
