WHO retracts statement after spewing out nonsense, sorry, but it's obvious this outfit has been compromised as it continues to spew misinformation.
Forgive if already posted:
WHO retreats on 'no evidence' claim, says antibodies will protect most from reinfection
April 27, 2020
U.N. agency deletes tweet after challenges on social media
The World Health Organization has retreated from its claim last week that there is “no evidence” that recovered coronavirus patients will be resistant to future infections, saying that most will enjoy some level of immunity.
In the now-deleted tweet, WHO said, “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from #COVID19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection,” drawing pushback on social media.
As FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver put it, “The consensus of the evidence, as best as I can tell, is that there’s very likely to be some degree of immunity, although we don’t know how absolute it is and for how long it confers and there’s still a lot to be learned about it.”
WHO responded Saturday by walking back the thread, saying it had “caused concern & we would like to clarify,” and replaced the tweet with: “We expect that most people who are infected with #COVID19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection.”
The original tweet was part of a thread about a scientific brief released Friday that discouraged the idea of nations issuing “immunity passports” to those with COVID-19 antibodies, citing concerns about the accuracy and reliability of such testing on the newly emerged pathogen.
“Some governments have suggested that the detection of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could serve as the basis for an ‘immunity passport’ or ‘risk-free certificate,’” said the WHO press release, adding, “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.”
The result was headlines such as NPR’s, “‘No Evidence’ Yet That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Are Immune, WHO Says,” and Bloomberg’s “WHO Warns That You May Catch Coronavirus More Than Once.”
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