I've never gotten her to correct anything (and I'm far from the only person to have tried) so I'm not hopeful here but... this has been a troubling. With all due respect to her past great work, there isn't a great pattern here.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1359225865939406857 …
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If you see my thread above, you see scientists trying, desperately trying to correct her on basic stuff, to no avail. No, "vaccine resistance" isn't "akin to antibiotic resistance". No, that's not how vaccine efficacy works. I respect her past work a lot, but... this isn't right.
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I respect that there are some things where there is legitimate disagreement. But then there are other things where basic facts are not in dispute. The White House cluster had a huge and well-documented indoor component over many days.
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Anyway, I hope that the zillion people pinging me have misunderstood the claims made on
@NicolleDWallace's show. I'll check the transcript later. The cluster around the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation included multi-day indoor events, including the day of the Rose Garden ceremony.Show this thread
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I thought the same as I heard her say that...she was wrong.
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Exact quote: “the Rose Garden is outdoors and the Rose Garden event at the White House was clearly a superspreader event that spread the virus through much of the attendees that were at the Rose Garden and continued to spread from there throughout the White House.”
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Oof. That's just a very basic misinterpretation of what happened, something a casual observer might say. Not a mistake a supposed expert should be making.
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But Zeynep, the TV had mostly pictures of the rose garden that burned into peoples brains and barely any of the indoor component, therefore by the laws of TV-USA, the outdoor component was the only component that existed!
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