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.
#maskeaufhttps://twitter.com/RugeBoris/status/1243445606548455424 …zeynep tufekci added,
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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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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Matt McCarthy
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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Replying to @zeynep @ErinOfAlaska
‘A few surgical masks per person?’ You honestly do not know what you are tweeting. As a healthcare professional, I can assure you that there are is a critical shortage of masks nationwide and there certainly aren’t any to spare. An announcement like this is foolish and dangerous.
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The alternative is an exponential rise at your doorstep. I understand the dire shortage. We have to ramp up production but also mask as many people as possible in the next few weeks through rationing and homemade masks. Otherwise, worse crisis in two weeks.
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