This has some older papers including a lot on cloth masks. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4pt4oFDBhsC_jpblXpNtQ/edit#heading=h.9yzpxufkt5ow … Basically, it's a good source control mechanism, plus it gives sick people cover to wear one. (No way can only the sick/symptomatic wear it—too much stigma).
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Replying to @zeynep @kirtipatelmd
So the only reasonable argument against them would be if there was indeed false security/risk behavior that we wouldn't otherwise see. But research on risk/safety has no such precedent (just the opposite) plus masks may even help by 1-removing stigma; 2-signaling crisis.
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Replying to @zeynep @kirtipatelmd
The big misunderstanding has been that cloth/surgical masks are a community measure targeting R0 via source control, not what health-care workers need to protect themselves—different game there. Plus intubation/aerosols risk for hcw etc. For population, it's R0 dampening. /end
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Replying to @zeynep
Wear the mask to feel better if you'd like but it is not going to save you. Distance is the key.pic.twitter.com/5HmC6BX3mo
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Replying to @kirtipatelmd
All those people would be worse off without masks. Nobody is arguing they should not distance. And history of risk/safety tells us that "false security/increased risk" arguments do not pan out. I think the evidence is clear enough even CDC/WHO shifted. I cannot add more. Bye!
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The WHO on masks: "insufficient" to provide protection. And the CDC has degraded under Trump from the once reputable organization it was. Cloth masks but no broad testing, tracing...what a joke.pic.twitter.com/IfqPNGsW1r
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Replying to @kirtipatelmd
(I don't disagree that we should have the other legs, and it's a disgrace that we don't. I don't think that's an argument against source-control measures and yeah should've been ready and had surgical masks at least for population but here we are.)
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Replying to @kirtipatelmd @zeynep
My elderly parents live in Jersey, my sister works at a hospital in NY. People like you and your dumb mask messaging at a time when everyone should be socially isolating AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE is putting us all at risk.
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Replying to @kirtipatelmd @zeynep
The time for masks is when we can safely go back to society. That time is not now.
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Why wait? Grocery store clerks are out there. Harm reduction now. I wish we did more now. Here we are, and anything that slows this is important. I'm not any less frustrated by lack of progress on all the other fronts.
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Replying to @zeynep
Oh are we only talking about essential workers? Yes they should wear PPE. But I know we are not when you say "open the parks". Everyone else should not be out in the parks wearing masks. You are completely distracting people from what is important and proven to work.
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Replying to @kirtipatelmd @zeynep
Go have some bubble tea. Have a nice day.pic.twitter.com/PpxYmAztnu
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