Yep - full year, almost to the day. First piece for me was Feb 9. Covers aerosols, ventilation, MERV-13 filters, portable air cleaners w/ high efficiency filters, humidity...https://www.ft.com/content/5083fd42-4812-11ea-aee2-9ddbdc86190d …
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Replying to @j_g_allen @linseymarr and
Yeah. And the resistance to correctly understanding and communicating the mode of transmission held back everything else that was crucial—masks, ventilation, proper contact tracing, encouraging outdoors... Can't have right guidance on any without acknowledging aerosols/airborne.
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Replying to @zeynep @linseymarr and
100 agree. can't line up controls without first knowing what you're trying to control...
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Replying to @j_g_allen @linseymarr and
Thinking back, three things needed acknowledgment to get the right NPIs: aerosols an airborne transmission; presymptomatic transmission, overdispersion. In combination, that gives you ventilation, masks, clusters, how to trace, indoors/outdoors, need for rapid test/turn around...
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Replying to @zeynep @linseymarr and
Agree. And, while it wasn't all fully worked out early, certainly we 'knew enough to know'. So much lost time debating.
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Replying to @j_g_allen @zeynep and
It's my least favorite part of academia ('more research needed') and favorite part of consulting (make decisions now based on best avail evidence and follow precautionary principle)
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Replying to @j_g_allen @linseymarr and
Well, more research is always needed. But public health requires action and on this particular aspect, I think we got a lot of evidence pretty early. Maybe we couldn't be as sharp as Japan and be there in February but March? April? Last month?
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Replying to @zeynep @j_g_allen and
Astounding how bad the US public health establishment's messaging has been. Just shameful.
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Replying to @zeynep @j_g_allen and
And if not for folks like you, I'd probably think "well, best anyone could do given what we knew; no one could've done better." The truth is, of course, much less comforting.
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Yeah many say that—and of course that happens sometimes—but it’s just not true for this. And many other key pandemic turning points.
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