Totally agree. We can just be open and honest about what we know about transmission, and *carefully/tactfully* extrapolate this to vaccination while we wait for more data.
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Yes! We need to wait a bit more, even a few weeks or months, is an excellent and durable message, and also a lot more likely to take than the "vaccines will not make a difference in your lives maybe for another year or more" message that is being inadvertently spread right now.
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Btw I wrote this in my piece today. People misunderstand the whole marshmallow experiment/delay thing. Willpower is not divorced from hope and social conditions—and evidence. And we have evidence! These vaccines should call for celebration, not gloom. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/wait-until-march/617410/ …pic.twitter.com/54e7YhKzU4
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Who is calling for gloom? Many scientists have acclaimed this as one of the greatest achievements in human history, including myself on local news. See
@EricTopol feed yesterday. Scientists sticking to the data rather than endorsing PH guidance based on speculation isn't gloom.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
It's really a totally unfair accusation to level at people who have worked very hard to use the best data available to combat this pandemic. You have consistently displayed an urge to get ahead of the data and I'm sorry scientists won't endorse that, but there's a reason not to.
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It's not an accusation of malice.
@EricTopol can feel free to chime in if I'm "ahead of the data" in an unwarranted fashion. I watch for that, as one should, and it's been a year where I'm merely ahead of positive guidelines because I try hard to stick to data and don't oversell.2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes -
Right now, there's widespread perception that these vaccines will not prevent infectiousness (rather than, they may well do so but we'll know more shortly) that life will not change even in 2021, and an anti-vaxxer message going wild, unopposed, on that. This is reality.
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I have seen a lot of messaging that by mid-2021 we can get substantially back to "normal". Can we do better getting that out? Of course! Does the fact that it hasn't 100% permeated everyone's thinking mean the message is no change indefinitely? No it does not.
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Fauci is among those who have said we can get back to normal in 2021. Many have told people to expect widespread vaccination by July. Many scientists are hailing the vaccines as an incredible accomplishment.
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There has been *tons* of messaging touting the vaccines. You're asking for more than that, for scientists to get ahead of the data. We will have the data soon, and adjust messaging accordingly.
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No, I'm actually advocating we stay with the data and the science, including its complexity and unknowns, and treat the public like adults who can handle it. Getting ahead of the data has a signature and a track-record, so does staying with the data, as well as being behind.
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To be fair, the article here was very clear that this is an unknown and seemed accurate. It's just an unknown that's not especially likely and keeps getting reiterated for some reason.
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