March 2020: How dare you argue that universal masking could be an important tool for dampening transmission! Masks increase your risk of infection and are Asian supersitition! March 2021: How dare you argue that masks are one (good) tool among many, and vaccination is crucial!
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I literally have examples of versions of the above from people—and not just some randoms people with three followers but people claiming expertise and treated as such. I’m not providing examples here to avoid social media pile-ons, but lol, humans. We’re an interesting species.
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I’ve been writing about that for a year now. Literal anniversary of my first piece on that is this week. There have been a few surprises, but honestly, almost all key pillars of the science we needed to know for effective mitigation have been in place since Feb/Mar 2020.https://twitter.com/jeffzuk/status/1377994050620555264 …
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So good but two things: wearing masks in public while many are unvaccinated is a good idea—airlines and grocery stores cannot have two classes of people. Also, the risk is that the safety of the vaccinated lulls us into ingoring the risk that remains *high* for the unvaccinated.https://twitter.com/KristenhCNN/status/1377999766508949506 …
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Most of the day-to-day hand-wringing and faux controversies over vaccines will soon get washed away (not denying a few real issues). But a lot of it is just... Sturm und Drang. Meh. But *vaccination* —globally— and equity and the next phase. Not at all easy or straightforward.
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For folks asking me about the current surge (in the US, and implicitly in other places but this piece is US focused). I wrote about that last week.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/fourth-surge-variant-vaccine/618463/ …
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Folks asking about the current B.1.1.7 variant linked to these surges, here's my article (from the last day of the last year) trying to warn about it.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/ …
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What about all the good news? Well, two articles on some of that. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/ … andhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/three-ways-pandemic-has-bettered-world/618320/ …
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