The WHO is also, finally, finally, finally shifting. WHO, like the CDC, should quickly issue guidelines for best practices and sanitization. Time for them to step up and do what they are supposed to do, and can do.https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1246152974809915393 …
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I can't wait to put an end to this thread.
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The WHO finally "encourages" the public to wear masks. What a tragic waste of time and a needless squandering of medical authority amidst a pandemic. By March, there was enough evidence of presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission for me to write this. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927569065324547 …pic.twitter.com/2Me0Sj9OlD
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO)
Also not only is there no evidence for this claim, there is emerging evidence for the opposite, and there is decades of evidence from other safety devices that this concern is not warranted, and if this was a thing, it would also apply to hand-washing.
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Here's a preprint of a paper (I'm a co-author) where we review the "false sense of security" claim and explain why it doesn't stand to evidence at all, and why, on the contrary, universal masks would be expected to lessen stigma and heighten solidarity. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2 …pic.twitter.com/2tDzvYGNVr
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If some past person had told me I'd spend most of my energy in the first months of a pandemic arguing against CDC and WHO guidelines, that they would drag their feet despite mounting evidence, and that we'd rely on grassroots movements instead, I'd have dismissed them as nuts.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Babak Javid
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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Babak Javid @javid_labThis 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 …18 replies 246 retweets 738 likesShow this thread -
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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You defend public health experts, I don't think you should. This was the moment for which they trained their whole lives, and they flubbed it, big time.
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Some (not necessarily the authorities) were good on this, and there are many other aspects (including harm reduction advice and guidance) that many many were great at. CDC and the WHO not so much, though the issue there is complicated, too.
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There is a peculiar and particular way in which a lot of things failed, I agree. It's not the whole field of public health, but the two top institutions did fail in significant ways that will surely be part of the sad history people will eventually write of of this year.
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A case of politicians advising the advisors? I haven’t researched anything, but it sounds a lot like political motives around conserving masks for healthcare workers pushed the WHO and CDC into releasing bad advice.
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