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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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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Yes, it turns out that the key skills are humility, adaptability and agility.
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That’s good science and good public health in a crisis! I love how she’s so open about it.
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