WHO Now Says COVID Rarely Spreads Asymptomatically, CBS/NBC Ignore

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 8, 2020
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Back in April, CBS and NBC threw a fit because President Trump had decided to cut off U.S. tax dollars from flowing to the World Health Organization (WHO), citing their kowtowing to China. They defended the organization as a critical institution needed to fight the coronavirus. But, on Monday, the WHO announced that the virus was very rarely transmitted via asymptomatic patients. The mystery of who was a carrier was the reason health officials had us sink the economy and destroy lives. Now that it seemed as though we did all that for nothing, CBS and NBC were nowhere to be seen.

But to their credit, ABC’s World News Tonight did cover the WHO’s new announcement thanks to correspondent Tom Llamas.

And tonight, new, important guidance from the WHO they're now saying it is rare for asymptomatic patients carrying COVID-19 to spread the deadly disease,” Llamas reported. “They say the focus should be on people showing symptoms, to quarantine them, and isolate their contacts.”

Instead of reporting on this revelation from the organization they feverishly defended from Trump, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News touted how their city, New York was finally reopening. NBC even wasted time with a segment dedicated to promoting the radical idea of defunding and abolishing police departments.

And there was no reason for NBC to skip the WHO’s announcement since their sister network, CNBC had written up a report on it.

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