WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - US coronavirus task force response coordinator Dr Deborah Birx said that the United States and other countries could have had a stronger initial response to Covid-19 if China had been more forthcoming about key features of the virus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US coronavirus task force response coordinator Dr Deborah Birx said that the United States and other countries could have had a stronger initial response to Covid-19 if China had been more forthcoming about key features of the virus.
"I have to say if we had known about the level of asymptomatic spread, we would have all looked at this differently," Birx said at the panel. Birx said that public health officials had originally assumed that only 15 per cent to 20 per cent of Covid-19 patients are asymptomatic when in fact that number is at least 40 per cent.
President Donald Trump has levelled blame at China for the outbreak, saying the country should have warned the world much sooner.
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