Georgia is considering opening retail, restaurants, nail salons, in-person worship and other indoor places next week. Please feel free to share the study on top of this thread with your friends there: one asymptomatic person in a restaurant infected 10.https://twitter.com/JustinGrayWSB/status/1252330712092590080 …
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@jeremyphoward in his super useful FAQ on masks. *94* out of 97 cases in a building worked on the same floor! It really suggests transmission through air is much more important than surfaces like elevator/doorknobs. Mask up! https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/20/skeptics-masks/ …pic.twitter.com/XVF9WeJbig
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Can't believe this gets published by the BBC, this late! If you're worried masks can be contaminated by other people's cough and sneezes, what do you think happens to YOUR MOUTH AND NOSE IF you aren't wearing a mask? The other two also make no sense.
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This "false sense of security" argument has been trotted out against many safety devices (seat-belts, helmets) and the evidence does not bear it out. No reason/data to think different for face masks. If anything, it's the other way around. See more here: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v1 …pic.twitter.com/oIPsKROAuH
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Respectable Ron
This is actually a great question. A lot of evidence that talking/singing and maybe just breathing around people from close enough range is sufficient to transmit the virus—and if you have a mask on, the amount one sheds is cut down dramatically.https://twitter.com/LucidLeaguing/status/1252654696029982721 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lydia Bates
Yep, this actually makes a lot more sociological sense, and the experience of Hong Kong/Taiwan etc. support this: widespread mask wearing *signal* solidarity and importance/reminder of the pandemic, and probably encourage *more* distancing/hygiene as well.https://twitter.com/lydiajo/status/1252656232193720320 …
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Lydia Bates @lydiajoReplying to @zeynepPurely anecdotally, I don't feel 'safer' wearing a mask (even if I am), I feel more aware of the risks around me. The fact that wearing a mask isn't comfortable is a constant reminder that my environment is potentially hazardous. My mask reminds me that things are not normal.10 replies 87 retweets 339 likesShow this thread -
Another crucial study showing how dangerous indoor situations can be. An alarming 94 (out of 216) people on the same floor in a call center in Korea got infected—an attack rate of 43.5%! But look at the schema. Most infections are on one side of the room. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article …pic.twitter.com/JQsVnDGtA2
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That study has been retracted. SCMP is not a responsible outlet.
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Scmp have provided far more accurate information than anyone else throughout. As to China pulling studies, those are the ones we need to pay the most attention to.
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I’m just mad at this practice.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1253750853250551811 …
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