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    1. Dr Ed‏ @notdred 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @ENirenberg @RidleyDM and

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    2. David Ridley‏ @RidleyDM 18 Jan 2021
      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."

      2 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
    3. David Ridley‏ @RidleyDM 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @RidleyDM @notdred and

      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 …

      David Ridley added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Good 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 …
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    4. Dr Ed‏ @notdred 18 Jan 2021
      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 vaxed

      3 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    5. Seth Trueger‏Verified account @MDaware 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @notdred @RidleyDM and

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @MDaware @notdred and

      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.

      8 replies 5 retweets 63 likes
    7. Dr Ed‏ @notdred 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @MDaware and

      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

      3 replies 0 retweets 24 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @notdred @MDaware and

      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    9. Seth Trueger‏Verified account @MDaware 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @notdred and

      I think it's hard to say that when masking is far from sufficiently done now

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
      Replying to @Brian_Orak @MDaware and

      Yep. Masking is widespread, and there is disporportinate media attention to the remaining pockets that resist, and none of those people are going to be reached now with more lecturing. If we had a unified message in March when experts chided people FOR wearing masks, maybe.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @Brian_Orak and

          And the mask-wearing crowd is not going to throw off their mask after one dose. All we’re doing is making especially younger people (who will infect others) wonder why bother jumping through so much hoops etc. if nothing will change. Not protecting masking, not helping update.

          2 replies 0 retweets 30 likes
        3. Dr Ed‏ @notdred 18 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @Brian_Orak and

          Dr Ed Retweeted Dr Ed

          You were right on and I amplified you as much as I could, as in the below tweet. But I do think people need affirmative guidance on what to do after being vaccinated. Doesn’t mean positive messages can’t be amplified in other ways.https://twitter.com/notdred/status/1243918345973501955?s=21 …

          Dr Ed added,

          Dr Ed @notdred
          Replying to @tgemiles @Zeddary @WHO
          There is a large and complex story around this that includes the fact that many countries have been pushing this with success. Follow @zeynep if you would like a sense of scope of this issue.
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        1. Trish the Dish‏ @TrishtheDish_7 18 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @Brian_Orak and

          Even for us complying, the messaging is now really annoying. Every time I drive on the New York Thruway they have signs flashing about masking. I heard you the first 7,000 times

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