.@rvenkayya & I were messaging about this the other day. I have seen some of the pre-lim data on reduction in asymptomatic transmission - but have not seen anything robust yet on this
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Which is pretty straightforward. Vaccines will reduce transmission, and preliminary data is already there and encouraging. We don’t know by how much yet and there is widespread community transmission so not abandoning masks yet, but we will, eventually.
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Everytime I raise this, people in the medical fields or in the thick of Twitter tell me I think I’m exaggrating, but I’m pretty sure I am not. It’s not good messaging and certainly not helpful when we really need to emphasize how amazing these vaccines are. And they are!
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We need to differentiate between being honest about what is likely (rather than trying to trick ppl into doing what we’d like them to do, which has not gone great so far) and rand Paul’s suggestion which is obviously ludicrous.
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I think it’s a big assumption that professionals who are saying “we don’t know” instead of saying “we don’t know how much” are trying to trick people into masking for longer. Some people didn’t see the one line in the Moderna paper; others didn’t put tons of weight on it.
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