The sooner we stop misinforming people about the need and efficacy of universal mask wearing, the better. Not telling the truth now will make it harder to pivot after the mask shortage. Also people can see through the bullshit and mistrust fuels hoarding.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1241821708400631808 …
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Future generations will be driven batty by the amount of concern over contamination from cardboard boxes—a tail risk: porous surface, exponential decay—compared with protecting the pathways to OUR RESPIRATORY SYSTEM WITH MASKS FOR A RESPIRATORY ILLNESS WITH ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD.
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I believe that this is the best temporary make-your-own-mask solution. It’s disposable, requires only paper towel and tissue and had promising lab tests.https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3050689/how-make-your-own-mask-hong-kong-scientists …
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The Czech Republic converted, quickly, to universal mask wearing, including home-made masks as necessary about a week ago. There really are no arguments left against promoting universal mask wearing and yet media/guidelines still say no need.https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1242894403984900098 …
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Another misinformation I see floating widely: without eye-protection masks are useless. No. It's a respiratory disease. Goggles help lessen risk, sure, but key route is respiratory. Masks are key. Surface contamination from boxes is similarly a tail risk. (But wash your hands!)
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When misinformation comes from the top (Saddam's Iraq has WMD!), as with masks, the job of journalists is to investigate, to speak with independent experts *and* find whistleblowers within these organizations and get the truth out there. Sooner the better.https://twitter.com/WHOWPRO/status/1243171683067777024 …
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Finally. Also need more on WHO—especially their China response/lack thereof—and more CDC. Most media still parrot CDC/WHO on everything without enough analysis. Both orgs *still* do much excellent work but are too important to act as if they are perfect.https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/1243225834187624450 …
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We need to model whether distributing ~four surgical masks per person, to be sanitized via 160F oven for 30 min and reused, and worn universally for the next few weeks in hotspots like NYC might be a better way of preserving PPE for hospitals by reducing the pileup at their door.
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People leaving NYC is no solution, as their necessary self quarantine in the next few weeks will inevitably require outings for food etc. Mask wearing must continue wherever people go. We can do this now maybe in the hotspots. Maybe NYC hospitals can lead this. Someone should.
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They got together in March!They all washed their hands. They sat apart. Nobody had symptoms. They didn’t wear masks. It’s a respiratory disease with asymptomatic spread. Our denial here is increasingly at anti-vaxer level.https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1243308477327405056 …
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Not picking on Matt (Love
@thenib!) and the reaction is understandable but yes, the internet rando with the touchscreen is correct and the WHO is wrong. It's as if the WHO is telling us Saddam has WMD. We need to stop fighting the last misinformation war. https://twitter.com/MattBors/status/1243393116347850761 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
Germany's medical association is on board with universal mask wearing. It is perhaps the easiest tool with most bang for the buck we could deploy right now, today, in the United States. And yet we are drowning in top-down misinformation.
#maskeaufhttps://twitter.com/RugeBoris/status/1243445606548455424 …
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Please look at the chart, folks.https://twitter.com/drsidmukherjee/status/1243565999439347713 …
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You know whose going to pay the biggest price for WHO’s incorrect recommendations on masks? Poor, crowded countries like India. It’s perhaps the only effective, low-cost intervention available to them. People within WHO with a conscience have to speak up.https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/everyone-need-not-wear-mask-govt-issues-coronavirus-advisory-about-when-and-how-you-should-wear-one/articleshow/74669323.cms …
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I’m seeing people modeling length of lockdown time needed in the US using Wuhan parameters. What we’re doing isn’t anywhere near Wuhan did. Even the best we’re doing doesn’t resemble Wuhan. There are categories of action that were done in Wuhan that we haven’t even discussed.
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I hope this is true!!! But please, start today. Make a homemade mask and wear it. Use a surgical mask—hopefully CDC can give us guidance on sanitization and reuse. Hospitals can distribute a few surgical masks per person—lessening the pileup at their door.https://twitter.com/drmattmccarthy/status/1243891663162019841 …
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Yeah, please stop the hemming-and-hawing writing folks. The evidence is clear, the arguments are clear. Don't bury the findings. Universal mask wearing is one of the best ways to protect the whole community during a pandemic with asymptomatic transmission.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1243847668700311553 …
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Also, based on a ridiculous and false misrepresentation of my piece on the widespread asystemic thinking that made things worse,
@NateSilver538 told me I should “sit this out” and won’t correct his caricature of me. I *refuse* to “sit it out”—but putting it here for the record.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1243922704799019008 …Show this thread -
Another important op-ed on masks from
@jeremyphoward in the Washington Post. We should especially pay attention to the Czech Republic: they, too, have a shortage. So they started with a massive campaign for homemade masks. Cultures can change and adapt. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-coronavirus/ …pic.twitter.com/kVpWhgzsKS
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One senator is on board!https://twitter.com/SenToomey/status/1244068464291176448 …
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The mask misinformation has gotten so bad that many people don't realize this is a RESPIRATORY ILLNESS. The main method of transmission is EXHALATION/INHALATION. People are bleaching cardboard boxes and then going shopping/to work without masks. (screenshot, not blaming person).pic.twitter.com/uH5s06dpVR
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Another excellent article by a doctor on why we need to switch to masks for all, ASAP. Also sensible advice on managing the shortage while prioritizing medical workers. Slowing this epidemic with masks is how we will ultimately protect our medical workers! https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927723 …pic.twitter.com/RbmqNyooGN
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Another European country is looking at switching to universal mask wearing. The evidence is clear. Still need to keep distancing and hand washing but it’s a potent tool in the arsenal.https://twitter.com/rover829/status/1244587811946106882 …
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Dr. Fauci on masks and asymptomatic spread: "There is some rationale we should use [masks] much more." YES. YES! They may shift! I'm begging everyone—especially editors—give them space to change guidance. Take your finger off the clickbait on this. https://twitter.com/tezuma75/status/1244599922441084929 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
Another lengthy paper. Also I know that other doctors, virologists and epidemiologists are rushing with preprints and other compilations of evidence. The tough part will be switching messaging, but we have to do that.https://twitter.com/VirusWhisperer/status/1244479397958004741 …
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I risked a lot to publish that mask oped weeks ago—against CDC and WHO guidance. Wished someone else would. Been called everything under the sun. But the scientific community is rallying around masks.
But please, please, give the CDC/WHO space to shift.
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Many more countries are sensibly adopting masks for everyday use.https://twitter.com/johnmcclean_ie/status/1244639747508785153 …
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My mask plan is homemade cotton or paper towel/tissue or procedure masks UV-C sanitized for re-use. Plan for trimming my bangs isn’t so advanced, send help.
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How is this happening? Is this true? Why aren’t masks rationed? “Roughly 280 million masks from warehouses around the U.S. had been purchased by foreign buyers and were earmarked to leave the country, according to the broker — and that was in one day.” Https://twitter.com/geoffreygertz/status/1244754128766734336 …https://twitter.com/geoffreygertz/status/1244754128766734336 …
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This may be happening! YES! Finally!


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More and more countries are accepting the overwhelming evidence and science that we clearly need universal mask wearing to combat a respiratory infection with asymptomatic spread. The sooner the better: first home-made, then ramped up domestic production.https://twitter.com/alanwongw/status/1244945031867166721 …
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