So it's not enough to discuss the evidence etc. for fomites vs airborne, because there's also a lot of sociology and psychology driving why we cling to that bottle of disinfectant a little too tightly—and that same dynamic applies to our reaction to vaccines/masks & beaches, too.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kevin
I hear this a lot—and I admit to being a card-carrying member of the earnest and optimist club—but it's not true. One, we have a new administration—not a minor thing. Two, WE DO THIS occasionally. It's not about scapegoating but sharpening understanding.https://twitter.com/kevin_bowen/status/1365369413608742912 …
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Dr. Fauci, today: “It’s backed by common sense. If you have two vaccinated people and they want to get together.. You can get start getting [together].. even though the risk is not zero, the risk becomes extremely low when you've both parties vaccinated.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA3ZfIEB22M …
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Do note there's no contradiction between keeping up public precautions—just the sociology of it: not good to have two classes of people for public behavior—while simultaneously expanding private behavior. If anything, I expect these to support each other. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/ …pic.twitter.com/fkCBW68AeX
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bill
Presymptomatic transmission & atypical clinical presentation. This was, indeed, much like SARS (overdispersed, aerosols important) *except* with SARS, fever & infectiousness overlapped. That info is what convinced me in January of 2020 we'd get a pandemic.https://twitter.com/BillFoto3/status/1365411548068511749 …
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Bill @BillFoto3Replying to @BillFoto3 @zeynep @MC_of_APrior knowledge or educated assumptions, especially by April 2020, seemed to be almost entirely accurate. I don't think I've read a single article where one of the assumptions scientists and health officials made based on prior knowledge was just flat wrong, but I may be mistaken4 replies 16 retweets 169 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lauren Pelley
Yes, please. Should have done this since last spring.https://twitter.com/LaurenPelley/status/1365655101914968068 …
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Lauren PelleyVerified account @LaurenPelley“If you gave people that opportunity to do things appropriately outside, how many cases would you then save from indoor activity?" asks@zchagla.@adamsmiller explores why it may be time to allow lower-risk outdoor gatherings to ward off pandemic fatigue: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-risk-canada-weather-1.5930135 …Show this thread5 replies 45 retweets 336 likesShow this thread -
A fascinating historical point on how the US public health authorities dragged their feet on providing sterile needles/exchanges during the HIV pandemic because "we don't know" if it works. Need to reread that history with a new perspective. Recs welcome. https://zeynep.substack.com/p/pandemic-lessons-for-the-future-open/comments …pic.twitter.com/eWGI1q4ntJ
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RCTs make sense for treatments (drugs, surgery, etc.) in complex, highly variable, hard-to-predict systems--like human bodies--but there are simple interventions that rely on inviolable physics, chemistry, and biology principles. Why the clamor for RCTs for these?
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Yeah. RCTs are crucial for medicine, anything with significant harms etc. But "sterile needles do not contain HIV" can clearly and scientifically be concluded from.. science and lab studies. Also source-control/mask would need cluster randomization, which is not easily possible.
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