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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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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gregg Gonsalves
It's 2021—and lawmakers are still trying to ban needle-exchanges.
This is why we must learn from the mistakes of past & current pandemics (I'm the child of an addict who essentially died from it—I don't have naive or simplistic thoughts about addiction).https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1365711828182065152 …zeynep tufekci added,
Gregg GonsalvesVerified account @gregggonsalvesReplying to @zeynepWell@zeynep sadly we are not done with those struggles. West Virginia about to ban needle exchange despite HIV outbreaks in the state. It’s a scandal, it’s an outrage that we’re still fighting this shit. https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/02/21/morgantown-shows-how-syringe-exchanges-save-lives-but-a-bill-before-the-west-virginia-legislature-would-outlaw-them/ …4 replies 55 retweets 304 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
I want to put this out here (because the article is long and I don't expect everyone to read it). I would not relax any indoor rules right now—if anything, I think they can be more strict (with support for those who have to work indoors/remain closed).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1365717999974514689 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @zeynep @RRcandid @ashishkjhaSo my wish is for the CDC to tell us: guidelines/risk comparisons for: private behavior among vaccinated people and private behavior for vaccinated people around unvaccinated people *and* distinguish outdoor/indoor rules. Public NPIs for indoor? I'd make them *more* strict now.
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Vaccines will/should allow expanded private behaviors for the vaccinated and we should be more chill and encouraging of outdoors is not only compatible with, is supportive of the idea that we should be MORE *on guard* indoors while we vaccinate and outrun the variants spreading.pic.twitter.com/HK677CbBZj
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Is this all still relevant? Yes. London News today: "Crowds flock to parks and beaches despite Covid-19 warning from top scientists." Look at the pics! (Also UK had a "eat out to help out" plan subsidizing INDOOR dining—no take-out allowed—they may reportedly bring back soon).pic.twitter.com/vWAtAUhctE
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Richard Engel
One year ago today. I’m not blaming him—it is true, that was the overwhelming message. We can and should stop being behind transitions and start acting/adjusting ahead of or with them. Matters for the endgame, too.https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1232770729290035202 …
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Richard EngelVerified account @RichardEngelDon’t panic. Doctors/ virologists I’m speaking to say 98% of people will be fine, even if they get Covid-19. They expect it will go around the world, but that most people who get it will be a little sick, then recover. The danger is to vulnerable people. Hospitals/ old age homes.7 replies 16 retweets 124 likesShow this thread -
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Really liked your article, but I'm not sure I agree that there was no place for this kind of advice. It can be simultaneously true that people panicked far too much and also that governments did too little to prepare and respond. [I don't know who this is and what else he said]
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Replying to @WesPegden @zeynep
In particular there's a sense in which trying to generate a lot of panic and fear became a policy substitute for an actual response. We don't know yet the full extent of the long-term damage from the fear and panic (e.g. from parents keeping kids from school for years, etc).
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That's much later. On February 27, 2020―when there was little advise out there on how and why to prepare and what this was going to mean (which was already obvious but not communicated)—"don't panic, the CFR is around 2% but it's mostly the elderly" is just not the right message.
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