Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health
#1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease like #COVID19. It is important to also consider harms from public health measures. #totalharms
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#7 While contact tracing and isolation is critically important for some infectious diseases, it is futile and counterproductive for common infections such as influenza and
#COVID19. https://inference-review.com/article/on-the-futility-of-contact-tracing …@MikkoPackalenShow this thread -
#8 A case is only a case if a person is sick. Mass testing asymptomatic individuals is harmful to public health.https://web.archive.org/web/20201114071007/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-against-covid-tests-for-the-young-and-healthy-11599151722 …
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#9 Public health is about trust. To gain the trust of the public, public health officials and the media must be honest and trust the public. Shaming and fear should never be used in a pandemic. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/528612-facts-not-fear-will-stop-the-pandemic … @camakridis
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#10 Public health scientists and officials must be honest with what is not known. For example, epidemic models should be run with the whole range of plausible input parameters.https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ …
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#11 In public health, open civilized debate is profoundly critical. Censoring, silencing and smearing leads to fear of speaking, herd thinking and distrust. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-covid-science-wars1/ …
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#12 It is important for public health scientists and officials to listen to the public, who are living the public health consequences. This pandemic has proved that many non-epidemiologists understand public health better than some epidemiologists. / END https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1321785323676991489 …
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You are taking about utopia. When so many of the staff where infected we were happy that we had any person who could work. Testing are still a shortage globally. Infection among teachers are galloping schools have to teach on distance. Elderly should isolate together!!!
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The devastation was seen early on in Italy with elderly men. Plain sight.
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Who cares for the elderly? Healthcare workers are often at risk as well. 40% of Americans have a pre-existing conditions UNDER the age is 65. And 9% of all deaths are previously healthy people. Also ignores long-covid.
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