“Vaccines with such high levels of efficacy will certainly help reduce transmission; however we’re waiting for more data to be sure by how much, and of course community transmission needs to go down. We’ll continue masking for a bit more—especially around unvaccinated people.”
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Replying to @zeynep @AbraarKaran and
How are we supposed to get people to comply, after a year of this, when we don’t try to paint a picture of how this will end? People want to see their loved ones and they want to relax the measures. That’s what vaccination campaigns help us achieve, eventually. Why undersell it?
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Replying to @zeynep @AbraarKaran and
Same issue. People are afraid that if we tell folks not for now but probably soon, they’re afraid everybody’s just gonna throw off the masks. We don’t trust people, so we tweak the message to try to get them to do what we want them to do. And then wonder why they don’t trust us.
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Also- departments of health in general that have to put out actual guidance to people on what they have to do are not going to be in the business of hedging on messaging in a “it might be OK soon” way— they will always play it conservatively for legal, political & other reasons.
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I’m in general agreement with your messaging,
@zeynep@abraarkaran. For now the post-vaccination guidance to continue masking and public health measures doesn’t change because we just don’t know how much vaccination will impact transmission. 1/1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @rvenkayya @AbraarKaran and
The preliminary data from AZ and Moderna on prevention of infection is promising, but it’s far from 100%. Vaccines can reduce transmission in other ways, but we need transmission studies to quantify this and adjust public health guidance accordingly. 2/
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Totally fine that recommendations don’t change now, in general. The problem is it’s becoming wisdom to say they don’t or we don’t know.
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Replying to @zeynep @rvenkayya and
What I’m seeing currently on Twitter is a US Senator and some other influential folks advocating for vaccinated folks to take their masks off, which resonates with many. I actually do think it’s really important at this stage of the pandemic to emphasize caution here
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Replying to @notdred @rvenkayya and
What I am seeing, a lot, is people saying “we have no idea” and that vaccines will not reduce transmission. Both are false and misleading, and have spread a lot in the weeks I’ve been tracking it and have become an anti-vaxxer talking point.
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I think it is completely possible to emphasize caution—I am out there since December calling folks to up all their cautions because of the new lineages—without underselling the vaccines and just communicating the honest moment plus uncertainty.
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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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