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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Dec 2020

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted John Johnston

    Biden's incoming CDC director @RWalensky on year's scientific surprises: "We thought we knew how respiratory viruses generally worked. We thought it was going to be droplet, and it turns out, you know, a lot of aerosol." Another: "presymptomatic & asymptomatic transmission."https://twitter.com/JOHNJOHNSTONED/status/1335809781450166273 …

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    “We thought we knew how respiratory viruses generally work” new CDC director ⁦@RWalensky⁩, like Fauci, show humility in accepting new paradigm #COVIDisAirborne. Great role models for all ID docs and IPC! ⁦@CollignonPeter⁩ ⁦@mdjkf⁩ ⁦@Josh_S_Davis⁩ ⁦⁦ pic.twitter.com/eKdPFJqlWm
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    • John Johnston Loretta Torrago ✈️ Brent Billings 🏰 Thatcher Ulrich Salim Jiwa Maria Paz nite 0wl 🔑⬡ Robert Bean #COVIDisAirborne Karen Williams
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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Dec 2020

        Hope for future! Also lament: imagine if we had spent the past year with public health authorities willing and able to speedily adapt to emerging information, and update guidelines quickly. Both of those were very emergent from the evidence as early as late February/early March.

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @JInterlandi @RWalensky

        Indeed!

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      1. Tali‏ @talirichards4 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @zeynep

        "We thought we knew" = bias. Humility helps in overcoming bias. It's a good quality to see in scientists and public officials.pic.twitter.com/cmDU0lrpWT

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      2. Sara obsessed epidemiologist Merwin MPH‏ @Saramerwin1 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @zeynep @kprather88 @RWalensky

        The questions that continue to *plague* me: Why wasn’t possibility of airborne more robustly part of working hypothesis from start? Why weren’t pre- & asymptomatic as underlying assumptions to r/o if not true?

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      3. Richard "Should Have Avoided Florida" Ward, Esq.‏ @RichardWWard1 22 Dec 2020
        Replying to @Saramerwin1 @zeynep and

        One failure was "stove-piping" of government agencies. People within same organization get focused on "the answer" that fits their expertise. A lot of health organizations are primarily populated by statistics-based scientists, while aerosol insight was in applied science.

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      1. Joel Kreager‏ @JoelKreager 21 Dec 2020
        Replying to @zeynep @RWalensky

        It is good to remember that it is a bat virus. Evolution has optimized it for another host. Human respiratory viruses use every channel to transmit, but this optimizes on one. WHO seems to head to bureaucratic consensus and then not budge.

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      1. erdinc uslu  💨 💧 🌡️ 🕸️HEPA Filtre /  🚦CO2 Ölçümü‏ @eerdincus 21 Dec 2020
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        @esenol @Amipgiardia @bengibaser @BulutGulcuN @drkaanyl @DrGunerSonmez

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      1. Wanting better‏ @cschneider8224 21 Dec 2020
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        Both of these surprises are things that WHO is still slow to acknowledge.

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      1. turn on Exposure Notifications on your phone‏ @SSFyimby 22 Dec 2020
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        "we" 🙄

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