China to publish asymptomatic cases

Mixed messages. This is what Bruce Aylward, World Health Organization said last month after he returned from Wuhan.  Whole interview on YouTube.

In it he denys tip of the iceberg claims and says we have to stop thinking of this in terms of influenza.  

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   Findings indicates that it is not circulating "hidden " in the community in China.

Quote 1:  More of a surprise, and this is something we still don’t understand, is how little virus there was in the much broader community. Everywhere we went, we tried to find and understand how many tests had been done, how many people were tested, and who were they.

In Guangdong province, for example, there were 320,000 tests done in people coming to fever clinics, outpatient clinics. And at the peak of the outbreak, 0.47 percent of those tests were positive. People keep saying [the cases are the] tip of the iceberg. But we couldn’t find that. We found there’s a lot of people who are cases, a lot of close contacts — but not a lot of asymptomatic circulation of this virus in the bigger population. And that’s different from flu. In flu, you’ll find this virus right through the child population, right through blood samples of 20 to 40 percent of the population