Really important article for the US (and UK I reckon). We are being hobbled in our pandemic response by our partisan divides https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2027985 … 1/n
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When the president talks about masks, he instantly makes 40% of the population agree with whatever he said, and about 53% take the opposite view (not sure what’s going on with the 7% but
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This is completely regardless of the evidence about the context, the specific type of mask, whether you’re indoors or out and in a public space. In other words the science and all of the things that actually matter for public health 3/n
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You see this also in the discussions around schools. Whether or not they can open (hopefully they can) depends on a lot of things, but a single tweet can upend all that and divide people into opposing camps 4/n
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There is a reality independent of partisanship, and it is the job of people like me to discover and communicate it in the hope of helping us all. But goodness it is tough making progress with these headwinds 5/end
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I think items #4 and #5 are absolutely critical.https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1308420024969973761 …
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