Yep. Totally okay for ordinary people to think CDC/WHO got this right. They normally do! But if you needed to separate the good science journalist from the one that parrots official advice without analytic thinking/deep digging themselves... Litmus moment!https://twitter.com/enscand/status/1246143381526302721 …
-
Show this thread
-
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Reuters
Yes! Finally! One thing left: CDC should issue guidelines for best practices for home-made masks and their re-use and sanitization, and consider distributing/rationing a few surgical masks per person in hotspots with instructions for sanitization/reuse.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1246149401246076934 …
zeynep tufekci added,
4 replies 38 retweets 94 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeremy Howard
The WHO is also, finally, finally, finally shifting. WHO, like the CDC, should quickly issue guidelines for best practices and sanitization. Time for them to step up and do what they are supposed to do, and can do.https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1246152974809915393 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Jeremy Howard @jeremyphowardNew@WHO guidance finally opens the door to#Masks4All. The science described here is incorrect still, but hopefully this step makes more jurisdictions feel able to introduce laws or guidance. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-opens-door-to-broader-use-of-masks-to-limit-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L2UK …Show this thread8 replies 41 retweets 116 likesShow this thread -
I can't wait to put an end to this thread.
6 replies 4 retweets 94 likesShow this thread -
The WHO finally "encourages" the public to wear masks. What a tragic waste of time and a needless squandering of medical authority amidst a pandemic. By March, there was enough evidence of presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission for me to write this. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927569065324547 …pic.twitter.com/2Me0Sj9OlD
7 replies 68 retweets 189 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO)
Also not only is there no evidence for this claim, there is emerging evidence for the opposite, and there is decades of evidence from other safety devices that this concern is not warranted, and if this was a thing, it would also apply to hand-washing.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927995932225541 …zeynep tufekci added,
5 replies 43 retweets 156 likesShow this thread -
Here's a preprint of a paper (I'm a co-author) where we review the "false sense of security" claim and explain why it doesn't stand to evidence at all, and why, on the contrary, universal masks would be expected to lessen stigma and heighten solidarity. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2 …pic.twitter.com/2tDzvYGNVr
7 replies 46 retweets 131 likesShow this thread -
If some past person had told me I'd spend most of my energy in the first months of a pandemic arguing against CDC and WHO guidelines, that they would drag their feet despite mounting evidence, and that we'd rely on grassroots movements instead, I'd have dismissed them as nuts.
15 replies 39 retweets 280 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Babak Javid
I've been arguing for months that the most likely outcome of masks would be INCREASED adherence to distancing—because that's what social science suggests. That baseless "false sense of security" claim had no evidence for it. Now, experimental confirmation.https://twitter.com/Babak_Javid_Lab/status/1269312406120996864 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Babak Javid @javid_labThis is a cool study! Masks/goggles increase social/physical distancing by OTHERS to wearer: as measured by remote sensing technology! Doesn't tackle the straw man 'masks make wearers more reckless', but suggests even ineffective masks may protect by increasing physical distances https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1269308838110302209 …18 replies 246 retweets 738 likesShow this thread -
So Dr. Fauci has just said the public was told not to wear masks because they "were in very short supply." I just want to remind everyone what it was like in March—viral threads telling us not to wear masks. (Not picking on one person here—she was misled like everyone else).pic.twitter.com/SEYKHgmYtI
58 replies 410 retweets 1,335 likesShow this thread
Amongst other things: encouraging face covering earlier would have led to fewer hospitalisations. Even from the very narrow questions of protecting health care workers, encouraging public mask use may have been optimal.
-
-
Replying to @DinoStraciatela @zeynep
Yeah well here in Japan around 99% wearing masks indoors and outdoors
0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.