A Missed Warning About Silent Coronavirus Infections

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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At the end of January, long before the world understood that seemingly healthy people could spread the coronavirus, a doctor in Germany tried to sound the alarm. Today, we look at why that warning was unwelcome. Guests: Matt Apuzzo, an investigative reporter for The New York Times based in Brussels. Dr. Camilla Rothe, an infectious disease specialist at Munich University Hospital. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: At the end of March, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that as many as 25 percent of those infected by the coronavirus may not show symptoms.Some scientists have criticized the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying its statements and advice sometimes lag behind research.

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0:26.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:33.0	This is the Daily.
0:36.0	Today, long before the world understood that seemingly healthy people could spread the
0:48.4	coronavirus, a doctor in Germany tried to sound the alarm.
0:54.7	That appuzo on why that warning was so unwelcome.
1:03.6	It's Thursday, July 9th.
1:06.8	Okay, so we're going to get started.
1:10.6	Very good.
1:11.6	Okay.
1:12.6	So you're recording, right?
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	You are recording and I'm recording.
1:16.0	So I think we can...
1:17.0	Matt, tell me about this doctor in Germany, Dr. Camila Roth.
1:21.6	Yeah, she is a tropical medicine specialist, basically an infectious disease specialist.
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