I've found Twitter to be very helpful but share some of your reservations about using it to dispense guidance. It's not even my actual job to dispense guidance or communicate at all via social media, but I see it as my duty to public health, as well as amplifying other...
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Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and
...relevant experts from other fields. In that sense, Twitter is an important tool, but it's not the only tool. That's why I (and many others) also write and give interviews for mainstream media outlets. But that's still not official guidance. The agencies tasked with that...
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Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and
...work do need to do a better job of communicating clearly and consistently, via social and mainstream media and their own published materials. I hope in the pandemic post-mortem this is addressed. It would be tremendously useful to all the experts here as well.
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Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and
I think the key question in any postmortem, was the lack of or insufficient discussion about aerosol transmission a significant contributor to spread? Regardless of the platform (only a small proportion of the population uses twitter), was this a *massive failure* or not?
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Replying to @samhorwich @angie_rasmussen and
It's December 1st & today the WHO *finally* updated guidance to say "if ventilation is poor wear masks indoors even if separated by 1m/3ft." Until now—eleven months!—WHO didn't advise people to wear masks indoors if one was a mere meter away from others. Very much a failure imo.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
I wrote a single article on ventilation and still constantly contacted by desperate people whose workplace guidance has huge emphasis on deep cleaning (with bleach! indoors! without ventilating it out!) but either no or vague advice on ventilation. We didn't get here by accident.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
So Twitter help aside, people needed simple, actionable guidelines and proper intuition about transmission. In my view, some concerns here about the word aerosol/airborne/analogies may apply to healthcare settings but were not a problem with public discussion.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
Hi there. Here's something that is widely distributed that has simple guidelines regarding school re-opening: https://schools.forhealth.org/
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Replying to @MattNoahSmith @samhorwich and
I know. The problem is if it's not CDC or WHO, lots of places simply cannot and will not do any of this—institution cannot be freelancing what advice they will take given the costs and the considerations. Hence the importance of the failure/delay.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
I've sent this paper, some great work from
@PatrickHorve, and more, to my school district, but to the extent that they can say "we're following CDC guidelines and sanitizing everything" it's much harder for it to get traction.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
That's what I hear is happening in many places. If not part of CDC (and WHO elsewhere) very hard to get traction. Some countries did better with communication/guidance (like Japan) but their infectious disease people were on top of this very early.
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Replying to @zeynep @samhorwich and
Thankfully my district has at least been polite about it, and has done some things like running central filtration w/ OA all the time, but I still see school buses with almost all windows close, even as nearby districts have bus driver shortages.
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