Remember the spooky term “stealth virus?”
This was the term broadly promoted in mainstream media last spring and summer to heighten fear of the coronavirus. “Stealth virus” refers to the accepted truth of public health experts that what makes the coronavirus so dangerous is that those without symptoms, who don’t know they have the virus, can easily spread it.
Examples:
On 26 February, Politico posted the headline: “U.S. isn’t Ready to Detect Stealth Coronavirus Spread”
On 5 June, Time stated in bold type: “Nearly Half of Coronavirus Spread My Be Traced to People Without Any Symptoms”
On 6 August, The New York Times wrote an article titled: “They Were Infected with the Coronavirus. They Never Showed Signs.” Followed by the sub-headline: “Even asymptomatic people who are infected may be able to spread the virus. But people without symptoms are rarely tested.”
But now a new report that analyzed the results of the post-lockdown/COVID-19 effort in Wuhan, the city in China where the coronavirus first appeared, has shown, “No evidence that the identified asymptomatic positive cases were infectious.”
The study, published in the journal Nature on 20 November states:
“Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening program between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases.”
The study also showed that while the vast majority of people do not get infected from those without symptoms, the small percentage which do are “mainly domestic and unemployed residents (24.3%) and retired older adults (21.3%).”
Overall, “Among the 7,280 residential communities in Wuhan, asymptomatic positive cases were identified in 265 (3.6%) communities (only one case detected in 246 communities), while no asymptomatic positive cases were found in other 96.4% communities.”
The study concludes:
“In summary, the detection rate of asymptomatic positive cases in the post-lockdown Wuhan was very low and there was no evidence that the identified asymptomatic positive cases were infectious. These findings enabled decision makers to adjust prevention and control strategies in the post-lockdown period.”
TRENDPOST: Instead of the mainstream media reporting on these findings, they continue to sell the fear and hysteria each day of “rising cases” while “authorities” impose strict lockdown rules across continents.
