An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.
by Raul Diego
Part 7 - Symptoms of a tall tale
Cherry-picking WHO literature to make the claim that the notion of asymptomatic spread came from China, the authors rely on a quote from a July 2020 scientific brief: “Early data from China suggested that people without symptoms could infect others.” The data in question came from a WHO-China joint mission that “consisted of 25 national and international experts from China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, the United States of America and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Joint Mission was headed by Dr. Bruce Aylward of WHO and Dr. Wannian Liang of the People’s Republic of China,” according to the mission’s report cited in the paper quoted in the letter.
Further, in the same July brief, multiple reports from Western sources were cited as evidence of asymptomatic spread, including a study conducted by scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Emergency Response in Atlanta, GA and a study carried out in Singapore, which references the Atlanta paper.
The letter cites a number of Western studies that also concluded that asymptomatic spread was occurring, but the authors inexplicably excuse these as “dubious” or judge their findings to be “considerably weakened” and for some reason, failing to contribute to the justification for lockdowns in the West, which they insist is China’s fault.
True laboratory-confirmed asymptomatic spread, defined as “a person infected with COVID-19 who does not develop symptoms” was virtually dismissed by the WHO in a Situation Report that the organization published in April 2020, wherein it concedes that despite the fact that “Asymptomatic cases have been reported as part of contact tracing efforts in some countries,” there have been “no documented [cases of] asymptomatic transmission.”
Lastly, the asymptomatic spread narrative was put to rest by a Chinese study in December 2020, in which a mass screening of 10 million people concluded that asymptomatic people are not infectious.
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