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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific
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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2:17World Health Organization (WHO) Western PacificVerified account @WHOWPROIf you do not have any respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to wear a medical mask. When used alone, masks can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a source of infection when not used correctly.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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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Sheryl Gay StolbergVerified account @SherylNYTThe@CDC was once the crown jewel of the world's public health agencies.@propublica has the scoop, with internal emails, on how it bungled the coronavirus response. https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus …3 replies 31 retweets 123 likesShow this thread -
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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Mike Baker
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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Mike BakerVerified account @ByMikeBaker60 people showed up for a choir practice earlier this month. 45 got sick. 1 has died. A remarkable window into how contagious coronavirus can be, even when it appears nobody is symptomatic: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/coronavirus-usa-03-26#a-choir-group-had-60-people-show-up-for-practice-now-45-are-sick … pic.twitter.com/pCjZI3dkfe13 replies 187 retweets 348 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
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@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 …zeynep tufekci added,
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Boris Ruge
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.
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Boris RugeVerified account @RugeBorisGerman medical association@BAEKaktuell calls on people to wear makeshift#masks at all times. Needed NOW: A public info campaign to get this going in#Germany What about@jensspahn doing his next presser with a fancy mask?#masks4all#covid19 https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/111423/BAeK-Praesident-ruft-zum-Tragen-von-Schutzmasken-auf … pic.twitter.com/8TCRXOCH1DShow this thread15 replies 172 retweets 289 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Siddhartha Mukherjee
Please look at the chart, folks.https://twitter.com/drsidmukherjee/status/1243565999439347713 …
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There’s enough evidence of all kinds including general public mask wearing. Plus, surgical masks are simple. They don’t magically only protect medical workers.
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I have. Check my threads. Overwhelming evidence.
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