Also, journalists, it's extra effort but please seek people like Dr. Klugman—leading the field, lifetime in public health & vaccines—for expert commentary on complex matters. Twitter has its uses but it favors talent for snark and subtweets over substance.https://twitter.com/findingpneumo/status/1339556859473227778 …
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Not saying everyone on Twitter is like that (of course not) or that journalists should go find people who agree with a particular view. But very often what looks clear or binary to the Twitter-verse is not & that complexity is reflected in the field in way social media does not.
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Two more (pretty senior) scholars (one is a former associate director of NIH) are advocating for modifying vaccine roll-out—they suggest delaying second dose. Less Twitter dunking, more constructive effort to figure out how to test this would be excellent.https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90358 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan
Example of how polarization and Twitter dunking makes everything worse. She doesn't like Blair (fine) but she has no idea about the topic either. But it's fun to dunk on Blair! And why is Blair talking about this? He's a politician. That's what they do.https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1341724700301549569 …
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One reaction I see is a lot of wagon-circling and how-dare-you indignation. I wouldn't even mind it for some topics if it had a chance of working! It's the 21st century! It has no chance of working! Have to be out there engaging the ideas—if they think it's good/bad/terrible+how.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bob Wachter
Adding to the thread, thoughts from Bob Wachter, chair of the UCSF Dept of Medicine on dosing strategy. (By the way,
@bob_wachter's chronicles and virtual "grand rounds" are an amazing, living history of the pandemic).https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1344667661246992385 …zeynep tufekci added,
Bob WachterVerified account @Bob_WachterTaken together, if we have vaccine doses to distribute in Jan-Apr, it seems increasingly evident that a strategy of getting as many people (particularly high-risk) their first shot ASAP will save far more lives than sticking with the two shot plan. (6/7)Show this thread4 replies 19 retweets 83 likesShow this thread -
Also, to be clear: our own op-ed advocated for immediate single-dose trials and resources/funding for it. A lot has happened since then, and many countries are forging ahead, it seems, with at least spacing boosters. That part is not mine to comment except: PLEASE COLLECT DATA.
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There are very obvious reasons why some countries are doing what they are, and there are also obvious and important cautions people are expressing. The worst case scenario is not measuring which has now turned into a natural experiment. If we measure, we can respond either way.
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An op-ed from
@Bob_Wachter (chair of UCSF Dept of Medicine) and@ashishkjha (dean of SPH at Brown). https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1345741327330263042 …pic.twitter.com/KCQPer2SsV
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Sarah Cobey
Hi Mike, I'm not a virologist. You need to ask the many top virologists & vaccine experts who disagree with him and argue it's more important to vaccinate many people now, and find the threat of vaccine escape to be remote and/or lesser issue. For example.https://twitter.com/sarahcobey/status/1345094869652537351 …
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