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@insight. I want to try to create a space for thinking deeply about complex, thorny but important puzzles, along with a community. Something between public writing and social media: some of both but neither. Sign up here:https://zeynep.substack.com/p/welcome-to-insight …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
I read a lot of history, and also study some terrible current things, but even as I'm inured to so much awfulness, I'm always struck by all the child deaths in historical biographies. Vaccines, antibiotics, nutrition and sanitation... Nudge your friends. Even if one dose.
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The reason kids don’t die more of so many other diseases is because we vaccinate against them. Yes “most” kids will be all right with many viral diseases, but some will not be. “Low risk for kids” is not a reason not to vaccinate them. We don’t want a fair fight with viruses.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1471329726304292867 …
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Perhaps of interest to those following India's recent roll-outs. https://twitter.com/TheWireScience/status/1478962033055961091 …pic.twitter.com/Ruro6huuXj
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This applies to the pandemic as well. I still see journalists occasionally falling for (until-proven-otherwise) vaporware simply because it seems like those pushing it have their heart in the right place. I guess: Ask about the data. The full data. Not the press release.https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1465745528466063361 …
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Nothing is ideal without tests, but if it is bimodal, I’d be curious about spring the boosted/vaxxed without symptoms on day three and keep anyone with symptoms until two consequent symptom-free days, on or later than day five as one potential trade-off. (Wearing good masks).
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There are two issues. Are rapid tests useful for ending/prolonging isolation? I think the answer is yes. Second issue is: if you don’t have enough of them, what are you gonna do as a coping strategy? That is also worth looking into, and ideally based on data like this.
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This is interesting work, but I don’t know why authors bin the results (3-6 days) instead of just giving us the exact days. Also, why don’t we have our own studies like this? This is exactly what we need to know. And: I suspect this distribution may be bimodal by vax/symptom.https://twitter.com/longdeserttrain/status/1480179160052125699 …
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I'm going to repeat: if you have parents in your life that have been shrugging vaccinating their eligible children, it's a good time for outreach. "Most kids will be fine" isn't enough when it's your kid—even a single dose is better than none, and a layer of protection for kids.
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Also this is just infighting — people on the inside telling reporters who should be thrown under the bus, i.e not them. Infighting via journalists is a sign of dysfunction for sure, but usually ends up being quite misleading to actual issues.pic.twitter.com/N64dLoeTlA
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Whoever is telling them that the key issue is “messaging”—something that can be addressed with media training like this—isn’t doing them a favor.https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1479453330275508225 …
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Also: a theory that cannot survive an encounter with epidemiological data needs to be examined for potential discarding. (In fact, I keep seeing word-salad theories by outright cranks fool well-meaning people unfamiliar with the underlying science—they could check the epi data!)
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Thread on great paper about superspreading and aerosol transmission, but starting in the middle for this excellent quote: "There is nothing more practical than a good theory". Amen.https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1479266413705580545 …
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Africa's struggle to get COVID vaccine doses: "We feel forgotten" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/africas-struggle-to-get-vaccine-doses-we-feel-forgotten-162500078.html … Thanks to
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Maybe there's a bigger problem here that's not Djokovic related.pic.twitter.com/NhSDb0tPMq
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"I have some good news and some bad news, and they’re both the same." Such a smart take in a piece full of smart takes
@zeynephttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/omicron-covid-testing-cdc.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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@zeynep essay—published a full month before January 6—has haunted me ever since:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-farcical-inept-and-deadly-serious-coup-attempt/617309/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
I know there's still no public data on this vaccine but was there a trial measuring efficacy? The only clinical trial on it I can find does not look at efficacy at all, just immunogenicity. Excellent news if there was indeed efficacy findings! Anyone know?https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/05/1070046189/a-texas-team-comes-up-with-a-covid-vaccine-that-could-be-a-global-game-changer …pic.twitter.com/sTGWPdxJx3
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I can't… this is why people were anti-condom with HIV/AIDS. Because there was still a risk of transmission, the narrative was pushed that queer people to act recklessly out of a false sense of security. That scaring people into abstinence was safer. This was disastrous.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1478737685397352463 …
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Really handy insight from
@zeynep on the usefulness of antigen tests vs. PCR https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/omicron-covid-testing-cdc.html …pic.twitter.com/q3inkzDpPP
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