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Excessively direct virologist. PI @VIDOInterVac. Affiliate @georgetown_ghss. Virus-host dramatics. 1X Jeopardy! loser. 🇺🇸in 🇨🇦. Rep: @anniescranton. she/her

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    1. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

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      People who disagree with my take on (hydroxychloroquine/masks/Trump/whatever) looooove quote tweeting this back at me, presumably to underscore that I was WRONG and lack credibility. So I’d like to take a moment to talk about uncertainty.https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1221478602723643392 …

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      GET👏A👏FLU👏SHOT #nCoV2019 killed <100 people worldwide so far. Seasonal #flu has killed 8200 this season in the US alone. https://twitter.com/Salon/status/1221475218331459585 …
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      Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

      I tweeted this on January 26th. At the time, data suggested the virus was spreading within China. There were few cases in the US. We wouldn’t know there was widespread community transmission until late February. I was wrong in hindsight, but correct at the time w/ data I had then

      1:40 PM - 25 May 2020
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        2. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          I was uncertain about the #COVID19 pandemic, so I gave the best advice I could based on what was more certain with the evidence I had then: flu, in January, was a bigger risk in the US.

          8 replies 7 retweets 163 likes
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        3. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          Scientists are trained to manage uncertainty—the entire enterprise is designed to address uncertainties. Being wrong is a fundamental part of the scientific method. We develop hypotheses, test them, and they often turn out to be wrong.

          4 replies 52 retweets 342 likes
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        4. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          Good scientists actually try to disprove their favored hypotheses. If a hypothesis can stand up to rigorous attempts to disprove it, it’s more likely to be true. So it’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to be uncertain, and to try to amass evidence that reduces uncertainty.

          9 replies 62 retweets 377 likes
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        5. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          A troubling narrative emerged in this pandemic that because scientists can be wrong, it means they are not credible. Models didn’t perfectly predict cases/deaths so all models are wrong. Scientists who urged caution were not sufficiently performative, so they were wrong.

          11 replies 42 retweets 313 likes
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        6. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          Unqualified self-promoters jumped to exploit the inherent uncertainty in scientific research to pretend at prophecy, that scientists were wrong and they were right because they plowed ahead, unhindered by uncertainty, spreading misinformation along the way and stoking panic

          3 replies 21 retweets 250 likes
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        7. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          The reality is that we ALL knew a pandemic was coming. It was never a question of if but when. In Jan, I was not certain at all that this novel virus would cause a pandemic. Our lack of preparedness, both globally and in the US, hindered our ability to address that uncertainty.

          8 replies 17 retweets 211 likes
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        8. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          So it is monumentally frustrating when people point to this as evidence that scientists are “wrong” and the self-appointed Cassandras of Twitter are “right” because they had shoutier tweets and weren’t letting a little thing like evidence stand in their way.

          4 replies 11 retweets 206 likes
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        9. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          (Aside: can we retire poor Cassandra from the public discussion? She rejected Apollo’s sexual advances, was cursed to be never believed, and was repeatedly raped, tortured, and enslaved. It’s not an apt comparison for any of the prophets of doom gloating about being “right”.)

          2 replies 15 retweets 189 likes
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        10. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          I understand that people are uncomfortable with uncertainty. Scientists engaged in public health struggle constantly with balancing uncertainty with a need to take action. This is more nuanced than being “right” or “wrong.”

          2 replies 16 retweets 191 likes
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        11. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          Unfortunately the focus on who is “right” and when they were right is giving oxygen to the “infodemic” that is contributing to the extreme political polarization of public health priorities. Nobody can be “right” about a pathogen that is still mired in so much uncertainty.

          4 replies 45 retweets 213 likes
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        12. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          Though we know much more about #SARSCoV2 than we did in January, there are major questions that still need to be answered. We still don’t even know basic things about transmission, viral replication, immunity, etc. We are still dealing with a high level of uncertainty.

          1 reply 34 retweets 188 likes
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        13. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          Personally there are still so many unanswered questions for me that—as a virologist who studies emerging coronaviruses including #SARSCoV2—I am a long way from being an expert on this virus. I feel more like an expert in things we don’t know & #COVID19 misinformation

          4 replies 15 retweets 170 likes
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        14. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          But one thing is certain: vaccines work. So in the fall, I’ll still be tweeting about people getting flu shots. Even though I’ll still likely be very uncertain about many aspects of the coronavirus pandemic, I won’t be “wrong” to recommend other good public health practices.

          16 replies 19 retweets 263 likes
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        15. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          And I am also certain that this false dichotomy of “right” and “wrong” as applied to a generational pandemic is harmful to the entire scientific research enterprise and to public health. So I’ll happily be “wrong” if it allows a deeper discussion about evidence and uncertainty.

          8 replies 16 retweets 207 likes
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        16. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 25 May 2020

          A more nuanced discussion with a public that has a better understanding of uncertainties is long overdue. If I can contribute to this in any way by being “wrong”, then I’m glad to oblige.

          17 replies 15 retweets 218 likes
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