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WHO Announces Coronavirus Spread by Asymptomatic Carriers Is Rare, but There’s a Catch; and Hillary Clinton Attacks Trump Over Protest Response.
The World Health Organization’s technical lead for coronavirus response, Maria Van Kerkhove, issued a statement on Monday during a media briefing.
Kerkhove revealed that the spread of coronavirus by someone who isn’t showing symptoms appears to be rare.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” she said.
However, there’s a catch. A person could still spread Covid-19 two to three days before they start showing symptoms.
Dr. Manisha Juthani, an infectious disease specialist, sent an email to CNN on Monday.
He noted, “These patients weren’t asymptomatic. Rather, they were “spreading disease before becoming symptomatic.”
Babak Javid, a principal investigator at Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing, issued a similar statement.
“Detailed contact tracing from Taiwan, as well as the first European transmission chain in Germany, suggested that true asymptomatics rarely transmit.
“However, those (and many other) studies have found that paucisymptomatic transmission can occur. And, in particular, in the German study, they found that transmission often appeared to occur before or on the day symptoms first appeared,” said Javid.
In other words, you should still be wary of being around others even if they are not showing symptoms. This means you might want to continue ordering your almondmilk from Instacart for a while.
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Hillary Clinton didn’t hold back during a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. During the interview, she called Trump a “failure.” She accused Trump of abusing his power and suggested that anyone voting for Trump has no “working mind” or “beating heart.”
“It is a mystery why anybody with a beating heart and a working mind still supports him,” Clinton told the L.A. Times. She noted how Trump makes everything “about him.”
“If it’s about a terrible pandemic with an unprecedented virus, he tries to ignore it. Tries to keep the attention on himself,” she lamented. “Then, when it becomes impossible to do that, he tries to seize the moment and turn it into a daily rally, like he loves to do.
“And then when it becomes impossible to ignore, he tries to change the subject. He tries to withdraw from the spotlight so he can come up with some other diversion and distraction for the body politic and the press.”
Clinton then pivoted to the recent protests, and how Trump responded.
“When we have a terrible killing like we did in Minneapolis, he makes some steps toward — in the very early hours after we all saw that horrific video — to look like he’s going to be empathetic, to look like he’s going to try to talk about this stripping bare of the continuing racism and inequities of law enforcement and justice system,” she told the L.A. Times. “And then he pivots again because he’s not comfortable doing that.”
Clinton also voiced her criticism of Trump on Twitter, writing:
“Tonight the President of the United States used the American military to shoot peaceful protestors with rubber bullets & tear gas them, For a photo op,” Clinton wrote. “This is a horrifying use of presidential power against our own citizens, & has no place anywhere, let alone in America. Vote.”
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