The question of what we do and don’t know about vaccine efficacy against transmission is a matter of immunology and virology and you have accused experts of *deliberately* withholding scientific information from the public on this.
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Incredibly damaging attacks on scientific matters. I’ll be honest. It’s disheartening to see from a fellow academic and leads experts to consider simply disengaging from public outreach at all.
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If that’s not your intent, fine, I accept that. But consider perhaps the way you frame your criticisms and their impact on the targets and whether we’ll be better off if scientists withdraw from science communication.
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In this thread, I've responded to a claim that the NYT article (which I did not write) about the evolution of messaging was irresponsible and harmful. I completely disagree on that, and again, if deferring to expertise, this is very much a field where *I'm* the expert.
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Did you write this suggesting scientists are being dishonest and empowering charlatans or not?pic.twitter.com/4TlQLp7AAi
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If you read this quote in the context of the op-ed from which it was taken, it was not necessarily directed at scientists, but at the conflicting messaging at the outset of this whole thing. At this point Pence had been in charge of all coronavirus messaging for nearly a month.
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Well if it’s presented in a misleading context that’s unfortunate but in combination with at least one provably false statement about vaccines would seem to cut against this being a beneficial article!
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Look, this is a common response I get. I've been seeing this since December. People are being led to believe that we already know they do NOT reduce transmission. And this has become an antivaxxer talking point (why bother, it was bait and switch etc)pic.twitter.com/USp8rNZaMF
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Somehow intentions to get vaccinated have gone up since the vaccines were authorized is my understanding?
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As I said (politely repeating myself) I don’t doubt there’s been some misfiring but I see a lot of messaging of exactly the sort you’re saying we should do but claim is absent. And intended vaccine uptake is rising.
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I'm not claiming absent, of course, but not enough! The winter ahead is tough (I've been trying really hard to warn people with the new variants etc) and we're already seeing HCW hesitancy... which is really worrisome and portends badly for future uptake by the younger.
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Yes there’s vaccine hesitancy and this is a grave problem. Granted this is a few weeks old but I don’t see data suggesting it’s being exacerbated. The opposite so farhttps://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-increasingly-covid-19-vaccine-poll/story?id=74632280 …
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No, vaccine hesitancy for the Covid vaccines is *not* a grave problem—yet. I’ve been saying for months that we’re focused on the wrong issue. The problem isn’t demand. It’s access and equity.https://elemental.medium.com/amp/p/ef0bed6cd0fc …
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