Posted on 04/10/2021 8:52:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Fears that COVID-19 can spread very easily through asymptomatic transmission were a major factor behind the lockdowns and mitigation measures seen across the world over the past year. Health leaders claimed that the threat of symptom-free spread necessitated broad shutdowns of major portions of the economy, indefinite school closures, mandatory public mask-wearing, capacity limits and other social distancing measures, and various other tactics for containing the spread of COVID-19.
Lost in the chaos of the past year is any definitive indication that asymptomatic spread of the virus is widespread or common. Scientists and public health officials have struggled to come up with meaningful epidemiological evidence to that effect, though most have continued insisting that it's a major contributor to the overall pandemic.
Van Kerkhove encountered significant backlash when she said that, based on current evidence, asymptomatic spread appeared to be "very rare." Van Kerkhove subsequently qualified her comment, a qualification hyped as a "walkback" by some in the media. Health officials "don't actually have that answer yet" as to the prevalence of asymptomatic spread, she said in narrowing her previous claim. "I was referring to a small subset of studies."
Van Kerkhove has not responded to queries since then regarding the evolving study of asymptomatic COVID transmission. Several other scientists, meanwhile, have attempted to answer that question with mixed results.
One study from December found that, within households, asymptomatic carriers of the virus passed it on to housemates at the rate of about 0.7%. That investigation made headlines for its apparent demonstration that asymptomatic spread is, in effect, vanishingly rare.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
So its a bunch of inconsiderate slobs with symptoms that are spreading it?
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases unit could not point to a single case of asymptomatic transmission..
There was not one documented case. Forget rare..
This is all that should have ever been said by the government:
1. Wash your haves after you do your business.
2. Stay out of other people’s face.
3, if you are sick, keep your sorry @$$ at home.
Covid created a cottage industry for pharma and mask manufacturers. I’m glad at least some people benefitted from this mess. /s
Without the asymptomatic spread BS, the lockdown/mask/distancing scamdemic narrative collapses. Fauci/Birx/Redfield (and others) should swing for this
Yet, many people show antibodies that did not know they had been infected.
South Korea did a wonderful study by randomly sampling its population. They found a huge number showed antibodies to COVID-19 who had never known they had had it.
We shut down the world based on a lie? Who told President Trump that folks can spread it and have no symptoms? Which FReepers touted that over and over and over again???
There are NO Documented cases pf asymptomatic spread, those without symptoms don’t have enough oif the virus to transmit it.
Everyone needs to pay close attention to the words they use:
The data suggests that asymptomatic people may spread the virus.
this is functionally equivalent to:
The data suggests that if Elephants flap their ears fast enough they May be able to FLY!!
“Data substantiating wide asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 remains elusive”
So they’re having trouble seeing what ain’t there?
That’s very odd...
Chinese flu shot the year before.
The CCP virus has never been isolated.
There is no science there.
The way the article uses the term asymptomatic is anyone without symptoms which implies that they include presymptomatic.
No, it’s the full time mask wearing idiots who are spreading it. The masks get wet with exhalation moisture, thus holding any virus particles in the air. Said mask is adjusted and the mask is occasionally put in the pockets, intermingling covid germs between the wet front of the mask and the wet inside of the mask. Then the mask is put on and the covid germs are inhaled, thus, giving the mask wearers their own case.
I find that strange because from what I can understand about this whole mess..... it appears Covid 19 was created in the China LAB.....where would people around the world acquire antibodies before that?
A huge number of people benefitted from this mess. Anybody with stock in Amazon - our senators, for example. Anyone with stock in furniture companies that sold desks and decor. Think zoom meetings and the money spent to make the apartment look more up to date. Also desks for kids doing school work at home. Think cooking supplies. Williams Sonoma (who just happens to own West Elm and Pottery Barn) and Wayfair, they couldn't keep up with the demand.
The people who were screwed over were the small business owners who just happen to be conservative.
Great article on the lockdown lies of many of our power hungry and/or risk averse leaders.
Fears that COVID-19 can spread very easily through asymptomatic transmission (as high as 45% of all casses) were a major factor behind the prolonged lockdowns and mitigation measures seen across the world over the past year. Health leaders claimed that the threat of symptom-free spread necessitated broad shutdowns of major portions of the economy, indefinite school closures, mandatory public mask-wearing, capacity limits and other social distancing measures, and various other tactics for containing the spread of COVID-19 (https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/data-continue-remain-elusive-prevalence-asymptomatic-spread-covid-19 April 9. 2021). Scientists and public health officials have struggled to come up with any meaningful epidemiological evidence to that effect and those that argue this point have encountered significant backlash.
• A meta-analysis of 54 studies with 77 758 participants found that, within households, asymptomatic carriers of the virus passed it on to housemates at the rate of about 0.7% (JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(12):e2031756).
• A study found “a prediction interval of 0%-10% for asymptomatic [attack rates]” (The role of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infection in SARS-CoV-2 transmission—a living systematic review. Clin Micro and Inf. 2021;27:511-519).
• An “analytical model” study that “assessed the relative amount of transmission from presymptomatic, never symptomatic, and symptomatic individuals across a range of scenarios” concludes that “persons with infection who never develop symptoms may account for approximately 24% of all transmission” (JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(1):e2035057).
• A study presented in a research letter found that people with close contacts with symptomatic COVID-19 were 3.85 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than those exposed to individuals with asymptomatic disease (Lancet 2020 Dec 18;EPub Ahead of Print). 628 people with COVID-19 and 3790 people who were close contacts of an index case were quarantined in Singapore. Overall 2% of 3790 close community contacts developed COVID-19 while in quarantine. The main limitation of this analysis is that cycle threshold values and viable shedding data were not available for all individuals included. Future studies should explore the relationship between viral loads, viable shedding, and transmission. These findings suggest that where resources permit, contact tracing should proactively seek people with asymptomatic COVID-19 because they can transmit disease and will need to be contained if a national policy objective is to minimise cases and transmission. However, if resources are limited, then focusing contact tracing around symptomatic people who are easy to identify (by way of them seeking health care) might be more resource-effective in reducing transmission at the population level. A close contact generally refers to a person who was within 2 m of the index case for at least 30 min (or for shorter durations in high-risk settings).
• A meta-analysis of 2,454 articles estimates that the relative risk [RR] of asymptomatic transmission was 42% lower than that for symptomatic transmission (combined RR 0.58; 95% CI 0.34 to 0.99, p = 0.047) (JAMMI. 2020;Published Online: December 11).
That's because, in a sense, they didn't "have it". Their immune systems took care of it before symptoms developed.
As it has always been.
“elusive” = Fauci and CDC LYING to keep fear driven control alive.
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