What will health experts discover next?
Dave Urbanski
After nearly three months of coronavirus-related shutdowns that put
tens of millions of Americans out of work, destroyed untold numbers of
businesses, and shuttered schools across the land, the World Health
Organization now says asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 — cited as one
of the reasons for social distancing policies — rarely spread the virus,
CNBC reported.
What are the details?
The WHO's revelation Monday followed preliminary findings from
earliest COVID-19 outbreaks that those without symptoms could spread the
virus to others, the network said.
"From the data we have, it
still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits
onward to a secondary individual," said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of
WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, according to CNBC. "It's very
rare."
Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy
individuals, can be infected by the coronavirus but never develop
symptoms — or develop only mild symptoms, the network said.
"We
have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed
contact tracing," Van Kerkhove added, according to CNBC. "They're
following asymptomatic cases. They're following contacts. And they're
not finding secondary transmission onward. It's very rare."
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