I'd like to highlight a point about epistemology. Many people—scientists and journalists—with infectious disease experience immediately pegged this as the next potential SARS. It had all the hallmarks. Nothing was certain, but it wasn't that we had "no data." We always have data.https://twitter.com/DimaBabilie/status/1345861726370205696 …
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Some context: Ho Pak-Leung, Head of Infectious Diseases of HKU made that call BEFORE China disclosed much (China was still playing things down then). Ho did that based on the (bad) experience of the SARS outbreak in 2003, where China covered things up for 5 months and 299 1/n
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people were killed in the city. That’s why as soon as we heard rumors of a SARS-like outbreak in Wuhan in the first few days in Jan 2020, we put on face masks right away even tho the Chinese government denied there’s anything serous. HK people simply didn’t trust the 2/n
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