Did the technical director for the WHO for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
actually say rare asymptomatic transmission? Yes, she, but did she mean it?
Well, I don't know. I do think she meant to say it a little bit differently,
though I think she's totally crazy. No. I think she was actually right, believe it
or not. But you got to get a little bit deeper into the details and unpack this
to understand what I'm talking about. So let's go in and talk about who, what, when,
maybe not so much where. but why First of all, who was it? Dr. Maria Van Kerhove.
She's the WHO technical lead on the coronavirus pandemic. In June
8th 2020, at a virtual press conference, what did she say? From the data we have
it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits
onward to a secondary individual. That's a quote. That's what she said. And then
what happened? Well, a lot of people reacted including one public health
leader that a whole lot of people love to hate. Tony Fauci said the comment
on asymptomatic spread is wrong. Here's the difference between asymptomatic and
presymptomatic, and that's where we start to get into the issue. Dr. Van Kerhove
actually said multiple times in multiple different ways, these people had
minimal symptoms or they were developing symptoms.
So this boils down to a major misunderstanding over asymptomatic
versus presymptomatic. And who cares again? Give us some time. Let's unpack it.
We'll talk about we all should care, and we'll talk about that in just a minute.
So then what happened after that big press blow up? Within a day, the WHO
responded and Dr. Ted Rose everybody just calls him Dr. Tedros, he
walked it back. He's the director-general, didn't really
explain, didn't clarify. He just said this virus has humbled all of us regarding
the asymptomatic transmission item, he said He didn't backtrack from what she
said. He didn't support or clarify what she said. He just said that needs further
research. Why did this happen? And what's this whole issue about asymptomatic
versus presymptomatic which is five days earlier? There were a couple of docs,
one of them was Eric Topol. Eric Topol is a very, very well-known cardiologist.
He's been at several places, including I think the Scripps Institute in La Hoya's,
obviously Stanford and in the Midwest. He's learning these people with a couple
hundred citations in peer-reviewed magazines. Very influential. And basically
here's what they said. They were creating this and documenting this growing
perception that asymptomatic transmission accounts for half of the
infections. Here's a quote from their article Annals of Internal Medicine.
Asymptomatic persons seem to account for approximately 40 to 45 percent of SARS-
CoV-2 infections, and they can transmit the virus to others for an
extended period of time perhaps longer than 14 days. So you see where this is
going... this is going to that old typhoid Mary story, and that's the concern. What
they're saying is that hmm maybe it's these 25-year-olds that are
healthy, have no symptoms, have no clue that they've got infection that are
spreading this all over the world. Now that's why this is becoming an issue?
Here's more quotes from their article. Because of the high risk for silent
spread by asymptomatic persons, it's imperative the testing programs include
those without symptoms. Then they actually go on to recommend wearables,
development of a wearable where all of us get a send in a daily result from our
wearable on whether or not we have developed
infection. Now we are... they getting all of this well. Here's where they're getting
all this. In fact, the vast majority of the article was a quote and rehash about
12 13 different examples of this quote asymptomatic and again I'll
explain the asymptomatic again. Just in case you didn't get it the first time,
these are all quotes of the percentage of people that were quote asymptomatic
at the time of the testing. In Iceland, 43%. Vo, Italy, 41 to 45%.
Diamond Princess, 47%. And then they went on to clarify actual
proportions were 46 to 86% but asymptomatic end quote. Boston homeless
shelter, 88%. LA homeless shelter. 64%. New York City every patients,
88%. And again, they did give some lip service to the fact that the vast
majority of the people in these quote asymptomatic groups are actually
presymptomatic, meaning they're going to be infectious for a few days, very
infectious but infectious for we don't know yet
maybe one, maybe three, maybe five days prior to actually having symptoms. So
here's a couple of other quotes The early data that we have assembled on the
prevalence of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections suggests this is a
significant factor in the rapid progression of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medical practice and public health measures should be modified to address
this challenge. Focus of these testing programs should broaden to include
people who do not have symptoms So at the end of the day, what this is all
about is Eric Topol and his friends saying we need to develop wearables and
he's a big wearables guy. Anyway, for the most part, I'm an Eric Topol fan. As you
know, I've got plenty of videos where I diagnosed my own atrial fib using a
wearable. I think those things are far underutilized but
I don't think he's right about this issue at least yet. And obviously, Dr. Van
Kerhove doesn't either. She said, look look at South Korea, look at Singapore,
they did very effective contact tracing. And when you go back and you look at
these successful programs, they did not find evidence. There were significant
amounts of outbreak attributed to people that never developed symptoms.
Therefore, contact tracing is a very viable way of dealing with this outbreak.
So at the end of the day, what's the WHO position at this point? Not yet.
None. Needs further research. Thank you very much for your interest.
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