But the world is moving. Time for WHO and the CDC to catch up to making evidence-based recommendation for face masks. People need guidance on sanitization/reuse for cloth, and we need rationed distribution once we have surgical mask production catch up.https://twitter.com/nycmayor/status/1245855631241707522 …
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I've been arguing for months that the most likely outcome of masks would be INCREASED adherence to distancing—because that's what social science suggests. That baseless "false sense of security" claim had no evidence for it. Now, experimental confirmation.https://twitter.com/Babak_Javid_Lab/status/1269312406120996864 …
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So Dr. Fauci has just said the public was told not to wear masks because they "were in very short supply." I just want to remind everyone what it was like in March—viral threads telling us not to wear masks. (Not picking on one person here—she was misled like everyone else).pic.twitter.com/SEYKHgmYtI
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How we got here: we were told that masks increased wearer's risk compared to no masks—and many experts and media parroted this uncritically despite absolute lack of evidence for this. And I could point to asymptomatic transmission in mid-March because there were already papers.pic.twitter.com/A4URiLQ8Qq
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Don't focus on any one person! This was practically the entire ecology in March with authorities telling us masks were a risk and unnecessary—instead of the truth: shortage—and "experts"/media parroting them uncritically instead of looking at actual research or Asian expertise.
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Of course! I wrote this, too, when people said "what about the shortages"? First, ramp up production then! Second, cloth masks are good for now. Third, each intubation requires tons of PPE! Every reduced case prevents deaths *and* helps the shortage. https://twitter.com/DinoStraciatela/status/1272520255659823107 …?
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Once again, Dr. Fauci says that they did not advise masks earlier because "there was a paucity of equipment that our healthcare workers required." But we were told masks were unnecessary, even harmful. They forgot "a pandemic is a communication emergency".https://twitter.com/i/status/1275522333428645890 …
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I don't live in the same universe as this CNN correspondent. Dr. Fauci admits they didn't recommend masks before—and even said they may harm, don't work—because of the shortage, and that's sign of a "best communicator? No, no, that's how you lose trust. https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1275491561405546498 …
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Could some *actual* reporters dig into that, and also this?https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1275792716941549568 …
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So they got masks wrong. Most countries followed basic WHO guidance, made their own decision on masks, and did OK. You don't need to tear the whole WHO down for this. They're in a dangerous position as is and especially in the Global South we really depend on them.
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In a pandemic, they got one of the most important tools we have wrong; they also had human-to-human transmission issue covered up for too long; they got travel bans wrong. It's a pandemic. But I know why they're necessary. I wrote about how to fix it.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/ …
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