VAUSE: Welcome back everybody. A new Oxford University study shows even after infection rates have slowed governments must lift lock downs gradually. If they take the flipping a light switch approach it greatly increases the risk of a surge in the number of infections. We'll have more on that in a moment. Meantime, cases still on the rise in Latin America. The region that has more cases than any other according to the Pan American Health Organization. Meantime, the World Health Organization is trying to clear up a confusing comment about how the virus actually spreads. It now says it's possible for people without symptoms to transmit the virus after saying on Monday that such cases were very rare.</s>DR. MARIA VAN KERKHOVE, W.H.O. EPIDEMIOLOGIST: It still appears to be rare that an asymptomatic individual actually transmits onward. What we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic case. If we followed all of the symptomatic cases because we know that this is a respiratory pathogen. It passes from an individual through infectious droplets We do know that people who are asymptomatic or some people who don't have symptoms can transmit the virus on. And so what we need to better understand is how many of the people in a population don't have symptoms and separately how many of those individuals go on to transmit to others. And so what I was referring to yesterday in the press conference were a very few studies.</s>VAUSE: Well for the very latest now on the coronavirus, Dr. Raj Kalsi is an emergency medicine physician. He is with us from Naperville and Illinois. Dr. Raj it's good to see you. Well let's start off with Dr. Anthony Fauci. END
W.H.O. Clarifies Comments on Asymptomatic Spread.