This study, and the rushed, sensational reporting around it, more that almost any other, single-handedly caused so many schools who were equipped and ready to shut down and parents to keep kids home, in my observation. Correction will reach almost nobody and damage is done.
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Replying to @zeynep @mugecevik and
Especially terrible since the issue was obvious the moment it came out, even without the further information that has since come out.
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Replying to @zeynep @mugecevik and
Original article; almost 400,000 shares on Facebook alone. Correction? Not even a thousand shares, yet. It wasn't just the NYT, and how many will not even correct? I don't know how many kids are denied safe schooling and parents now overly-anxious because of the rushed reporting.pic.twitter.com/PCjkxM99Vv
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Replying to @zeynep @BallouxFrancois and
@apoorva_nyc See? People on here saying how their friends are too scared to even let their kids out the house. Well done.2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @EthicalAfrica @zeynep and
But as the article points out, this does not change the overall conclusions. Bulk of evidence still says the same thing the paper arrived at (except that older kids probably transmit as much as adults, not more, which is where my article landed)
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Replying to @apoorva_nyc @EthicalAfrica and
And btw Zeynep, don’t write off this article’s reach yet! It’s only been out a short while.
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Replying to @apoorva_nyc @zeynep and
OK please let us know in a week if it has undone the damage. Let's not write if off.
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Replying to @EthicalAfrica @zeynep and
There was no “damage”. The article said younger kids transmit less than adults and the ability to transmit seems to increase with age, with high schoolers at much higher levels. Still very much the consensus, btw.
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Replying to @apoorva_nyc @EthicalAfrica and
I disagree. I'm aware of schools that did not open; parents who opted for remote-only for 10-year & 11-year olds for all of next year; kids being forced into haphazard childcare (because schools did not open) and heard from many others because of the coverage of this one study.
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Replying to @zeynep @apoorva_nyc and
And I re-emphasize, the study cannot tell us about transmission by its design, and should not have had a single article on it. I re-iterate: the study itself made claims that the data presented/definitions did not support & I don't blame a single NYT article—all of coverage.
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In part, exactly it came out when people were making decisions for next year and was so widely covered. Tons of people now think that even 10 year-olds are *more* infectious than adults. It spooked people. Again, this is a whole media issue, and also authors being more careful.
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Replying to @zeynep @apoorva_nyc and
What is the counter-claim though? Are you saying that 13 year olds are just as unlikely to transmit as 6 year olds? The Israel resurgence started with a significant outbreak at a high school...
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