Yeah but what about the flu? This is why its was never, ever appropriate to compare it with the flu. If you overwhelm the system more people will die of.. the flu. And strep throat. And everything else. And we knew this was coming early Feb by latest.
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Center for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford concludes that surgical masks are *as effective* as respirators for preventing infection in viral outbreaks. Fits Hong Kong's hospital practice. Asia was ahead on the science of this. Our experts were lagging. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-efficacy-of-standard-face-masks-compared-to-respirator-masks-in-preventing-covid-type-respiratory-illnesses-in-primary-care-staff/ …pic.twitter.com/DodJIwQWza
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Your daily irresponsible media failure: clickbait headline from
@washingtonpost claiming "masks were useless" in the 1918 flu epidemic based on no research or evidence but one historian saying so in a throwaway manner in a book. Shame on you,@elizamcgraw. Lives are at stake.pic.twitter.com/v4bi8QORUW
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So,
@elizamcgraw who normally writes about horses finds a casual sentence in a book that was more about how the 1918 epidemic spread and builds a piece around it titled masks "were useless" and it gets published on APRIL 2, 2020 in the middle of a pandemic in the@washingtonpost?Show this thread -
Science and fact-based advocacy has won this argument about masks. Even the United States is likely to join. There is no evidence of harms (it was all speculation), and if something actually comes up, we can address it then because the benefits are clear. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/trump-coronavirus-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/ZdqbLfpikr
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Some of this increase may well be due to hospitals being overloaded. As I tried to explain in the piece on top of this thread, and throughout late Jan and February on social media and in articles, *this* is why “but the flu” comparisons were so misplaced. https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1245852365464449025 …
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Thank you. People all over the US will need strong thought leaders like you to overcome this crisis without the predicted horrors. I hope time is on our side.
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Do you know of a good guide for what kind of masks are suited to the general public and the conditions needed (time, exposure, etc.) to dispose of them? I've a few N95s (not in US), but because of my dad and what I hope was a cold I don't want to pass on.
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I'm so curious as to what the post-infection resilience is going to be proven to be, and how much or how little restriction will be the norm for persons certified to have antibodies. (And then, of course, will people fake records like that?)
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Given I am totally not medical: Testing for antibodies is less yes/no than levels. Once the medical powers develop *that* test, and decide on the cutoff for “functionally immune”, then I’d recommend annual testing of a known population so that there’s some idea...
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