That’s when health officials started emphasizing that asymptomatic people are transmitting the coronavirus. ADADAnthony S. Fauci, a lead member of the White House coronavirus task force, was talking about asymptomatic transmission more than two months ago. Now we know for sure that there are,” Fauci said at a Jan. 31 task force briefing. By March 22, Fauci was more directly warning young people that they could transmit the virus asymptomatically. Kemp isn’t the first top official to make comments suggesting that they weren’t exactly up to speed on the particulars here.

Source: Washington Post April 02, 2020 14:04 UTC