Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

Re:Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease by samvher on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:17AM (#23780486)

They don't say something different. The key part is who does not develop symptoms, i.e. ever. From what I understand the WHO basically distinguishes between asymptomatic transmission (which they say is uncommon), and presymptomatic transmission.

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Re:Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease by rumanator on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:33AM (#23788780)

> They don't say something different.

I would add that they only state that there are few reports of truly asymptomatic cases (thus suggesting that asymptomatic cases don't exist) and thus so far there have been no documented case of asymptomatic transmission, which is to be expected if asymptomatic cases don't exist.

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Re:Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease by perf1 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:37PM (#23784163)

I don't know. If you are right and they make that distinction. I think they even know much less about presymptomatic transmissions. Because why would they leave that information out.

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Re:Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease by samvher on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:22AM (#23789032)

Because they are handling their communication terribly. A while back there were headlines about this precise topic, i.e. WHO saying that asymptomatic transmission is rare - it caused quite a stir and a number of articles followed explaining the nuances and this distinction.

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