Yes, I think the emphasis should be on getting as many people vaccinated as possible, and the benefits eventually manifest on a population basis. And we see meaningful improvement sooner if we're trying to keep R as low as possible while we roll out vaccines
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Replying to @notdred @ENirenberg and
Agreed. "Yes, vaccines probably reduce transmission, but probably not perfectly—so the safest and best way to get our normal lives back is to keep masking/distancing until vaccines help cases drop."
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David Ridley Retweeted zeynep tufekci
A timely article (which conveys the same point I'm making, perhaps a bit more aggressively):https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1351208819892826113?s=20 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepGood coverage of the latest messaging disaster, in a year with many. We are dramatically underselling the amazing vaccines, exaggrating the uncertainties and people trying to emphasize the good news are being drowned out, or worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @RidleyDM @ENirenberg and
I still just don’t know who
@zeynep and others are referring to. I keep seeing Frieden’s depressing tweet referenced. Besides that I see a lot of people extremely enthusiastic about vaccines who are just saying please keep masks on until we know more and/or more people are vaxed3 replies 1 retweet 20 likes -
lots of media coverage of side effects/allergies (despite v low rates) plus tons of "obviously we should be doing ____ instead" (prioritizing different groups, "not" prioritizing at all, single doses, etc) and of course tons of antivax garbage
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The dominance of “don’t take your masks off now” and “vaccines won’t change what you can do” and “we don’t know if they prevent transmissions” articles and viral tweets is a crime against public health in the first month of the rollout when those points should be footnotes.
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By all means I think we should message enthusiastically, and those who follow me know I’ve always tweeted enthusiastically about vaccines, but I still think there must be a way to do so without literally telling people they never need to mask again once they’re vaccinated
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I’m not talking about whatever you tweet, nor is anybody saying let’s go tell people to throw off their masks. The number of people who’ve completed two doses is miniscule, and almost all HCW. Don’t take your mask off yet is a fine message if it wasn’t so dominant.
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I think it's hard to say that when masking is far from sufficiently done now
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This is a total misunderstanding of what’s going on. There is a large number of people who have accepted masking (despite the public health folks telling them not to for so long) and they don’t need to be lectured to nonstop about this. The others? Lecturing isn’t working either.
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Right now, we have amazing vaccines and need to roll them out and increase update, and a new strain so things are much harder. People are at their wits end, and tempted to throw all caution to the wind. Instead of giving them *informed* hope, we’re emphasizing... negativity.
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