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    1. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick 13 Aug 2020

      Something I feel not everyone appreciates in stories about airborne Covid-19 spread. Epidemiologists and engineers approach this question with different tools, and different questions. (Correct me if I'm wrong here, please).

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      Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick 13 Aug 2020

      Epis ask: "what are the patterns of contagion we're actually observing, and which known model do they fit?" Engineers ask: "what are the physics/mechanics of disease spread, and can we observe it, experimentally?"

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        2. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick 13 Aug 2020

          Neither approach perfectly answers the question of what we really want to know: Which is an omniscient view of how virus gets from one body to another, in the real world, and causes infections.

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        3. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick 13 Aug 2020

          Scientists of different disciplines use different methods to ask the same questions, and there usually is a gap between their answers, and the way they define the problem. Any method comes with caveats.

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        4. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick 13 Aug 2020

          This is normal. This is how the science game works. Hopefully the gap between the approaches will narrow. What's good is that when you talk to epis/ engineers, they mostly agree on the important points, though they sometimes argue about the terminology we should use.

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        5. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick 13 Aug 2020

          Brian Resnick Retweeted Dr. Angela Rasmussen

          Also this approach too!https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1293935955586322432?s=20 …

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          Dr. Angela RasmussenVerified account @angie_rasmussen
          Just popping in here to say don't forget about the virologists! We ask about virus itself and how it infects a new host, and determine that experimentally. https://twitter.com/B_resnick/status/1293934375009165312 …
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        2. Dr Ellie Murray, ScD‏Verified account @EpiEllie 13 Aug 2020
          Replying to @matt_zefferman @B_resnick @CT_Bergstrom

          I agree with Brian on this. I cant speak for all epidemiologists but I do think most of us are using our pre-existing expertise of infectious diseases to understand what is and is not likely, while we wait for more data.

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        1. Desire Yavro‏ @DesireYavro 13 Aug 2020
          Replying to @B_resnick

          EngPhys (Engineer physicist) asks: " Which disease spreading model do they currently available real world data fit, and how do we match it in the course of this pandemic?"

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        1. J Kimmel‏ @jkmml 13 Aug 2020
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          @jljcolorado It's been exciting to see you bring your aerosol expertise to this problem. Where are you on this spectrum? (My sense is something in middle, where real world is providing the experiments to demonstrate the physics)

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        2. Kevin Sullivan  🇪🇦 🇺🇸‏ @LupineChemist 13 Aug 2020
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          This is a big difference between science and engineering. Engineering often uses correlations without being derived from theory. (See Reynolds number). The thing is the bounds of which they are valid are well known.

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