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    1. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      I've been avoiding tweeting about coronavirus because a) I don't want to add to the noise and b) I'm too busy to spend much time on Twitter. But a thread from @Atul_Gawande + data from @TeacherTapp persuades me to break a rule. (Forgive the clickbait, but) read on to save a life.

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    2. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      Data from @TeacherTapp suggests only 3% of schools are mandating wearing masks: https://teachertapp.co.uk/emerging-from-lockdown-new-world-looks/ … This is a mistake.

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    3. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      Harry Fletcher-Wood Retweeted Atul Gawande

      Compelling example: Two hairdressers with coronavirus saw 140 customers. Hairdressers and customers wore masks. 14 days later, NONE of the customers had tested positive. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/11/us/missouri-hairstylists-coronavirus-clients-trnd/index.html … (For wider evidence, read @Atul_Gawande's threadhttps://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/1271521310108266499 …

      Harry Fletcher-Wood added,

      Atul GawandeVerified account @Atul_Gawande
      Important results: Remember the 2 MO hairstylists who saw 140 clients over 8 days while infected with COVID but everyone had worn masks? Contact tracers found ZERO secondary infections. More evidence that masks work. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/us/missouri-hairstylists-coronavirus-clients-trnd/index.html …
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    4. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      School leaders: please keep your teachers and students safe, make them wear masks. Teachers: please wear masks. Parents: please get your children to wear masks.

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    5. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      Harry Fletcher-Wood Retweeted Babak Javid

      Even if you're unconvinced, it's hard to imagine disadvantages of wearing masks as a precaution (lipreading the sole exception). Note 1: Cloth masks, not medical ones. Note 2: Do masks encourage riskier behaviour? No, they increase distancing.https://twitter.com/Babak_Javid_Lab/status/1269312406120996864 …

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      Babak Javid @javid_lab
      This is a cool study! Masks/goggles increase social/physical distancing by OTHERS to wearer: as measured by remote sensing technology! Doesn't tackle the straw man 'masks make wearers more reckless', but suggests even ineffective masks may protect by increasing physical distances https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1269308838110302209 …
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    6. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      If you're wondering why WHO guidelines said otherwise, read @slatestarcodex's post (from MARCH) explaining the limits of those guidelines (TL/DR: absence of evidence of effect; not evidence of absence). https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ …

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    7. Harry Fletcher-Wood‏ @HFletcherWood 13 Jun 2020

      Harry Fletcher-Wood Retweeted Nassim Nicholas Taleb

      I owe my conviction to two people who've advocated masks diligently, consistently and compellingly since this began: @nntaleb, doing the quantitative work and advocating for the precautionary principle https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1269687435132354564 … and @zeynep marshalling and standing by the evidence.

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      Nassim Nicholas TalebVerified account @nntaleb
      Friends, can someone check my logic Re: Masks? Any error? If so Masks could SOLVE the pandemic. I have been saying Masks are NECESSARY since Feb, didn't realize they could be SUFFICIENT! pic.twitter.com/2Gk8q3LPCb
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Jun 2020
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