They can't rule it out, but it sounds like they're making a pretty strong statement that asymptomatic people are not a main vector for the disease.
Unfortunately, WHO's statements regarding the spread of COVID-19 have come under fire for being clinically vague to the point where it just confuses people (like me).
Apparently, she wasn't really saying we have little to worry about when it comes to asymptomatic people infecting others - she was splitting hairs and saying there's a difference between "asymptomatic" and "pre-symptomatic", and they still really don't have a good handle on what the fuck is going on.
Clear as a fuckin' brick. Thanks, guys.
Anyway -
Officials in Europe, the United States and other wealthy areas are reopening their economies amid slowing infection rates. Yet the pandemic is worsening in many parts of the developing world, and the global infection peak may still be months away.
The coronavirus has already sickened more than seven million people worldwide and killed at least 405,400, according to a New York Times database. The World Health Organization has said that Sunday’s 136,000 new cases were a new single-day high, and that three-quarters of them came from just 10 countries, mostly in the Americas and South Asia.
Yet as some developing countries return to daily life in an effort to ease the virus’s brutal impact on the poor, they are creating infection risks.
South Africa, for example, whose caseload of nearly 51,000 is Africa’s highest, has started to reopen this week. But it has recorded more than half of its current cases in the past two weeks alone.
We may be about to see the real-world lesson of inter-connectedness play itself out.
We've rebuilt Mercantilism, and the countries being exploited for their raw materials &/or where we exploit cheap labor to produce everything we consume, are in the process of what could become outbreaks that cripple the global supply chain.
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