“I am not going to analyze who is right and who is wrong,” Dr. Stephen Hahn, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told CNN’s “State of the Union” Dana Bash.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 35% of cases are asymptomatic, but even people with mild or no symptoms can transmit the virus to others.
While the World Health Organization has said that the global death rate is likely to be less than 1%, the WHO also said that about 20% of all people diagnosed with coronaviruses are sick enough to need oxygen or hospital care.
Under pressure from Bash on the show, Hahn did not defend the president’s claim about how many coronavirus cases go unnoticed by those infected.
“What I will say is that we have data in the White House task force. That data shows us that this is a serious problem. People need to take it seriously,” said Hahn.
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