Asymptomatic, my ass. At least here in Germany they claimed asymptomatic spreaders existed based on misinformation.
Coronavirus: Chinese Webasto employee already suffered symptoms in Germany
By Susanne Ausic/4 February 2020 /Updated: 4 February 2020 18:27
The Chinese woman from Shanghai who brought the coronavirus to Germany was symptom-free during the Webasto seminar. This is what the media reported so far and scientists also followed this assumption. An article in "Science" now reveals that this starting point is wrong.
An employee from Shanghai visited the Bavarian headquarters of the automotive supplier Webasto in the municipality of Gauting in the period from January 19 to 22, 2020, because of a seminar. She was already infected with the 2019-nCoV coronavirus pathogen and is at the top of the German infection chain.
According to media, it was previously assumed that the woman from Shanghai had no symptoms in Germany. An article in Science now reveals that this assumption was incorrect. In a letter to "The New England Journal of Medicine" (NEJM), the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) corrected the records of the scientific report published there, in which the virologist Professor Christian Drosten of the Berlin Charité had also participated.
According to the report, the Chinese woman - as also reported by the media - fell ill only after her return flight. A consultation with the Chinese woman had not taken place however by the "NEJM", criticized the RKI. The institute and the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety had telephoned the Shanghai patient. It turned out that she already had symptoms in Germany: She would have felt tired and suffered from muscle pain. For relief, she took a fever-reducing drug. According to "Science," an RKI spokesperson confirmed that the Chinese woman had already shown symptoms in Germany.
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