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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      Melanie Kiechle Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      This piece by @zeynep explaining the significance of the CDC and WHO announcing that the coronavirus is airborne--and why it took so long to get here--is really great. I want to add a few things about the historical change, and the history of urban public health. #histmedhttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1390738628528201735 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      The WHO just updated its page on how COVID-19 transmits. Those few sentences on aerosols represent one of the most crucial scientific advances of the pandemic. My NYT piece on the century-long history of the error, the year of delay—and what it means now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html … pic.twitter.com/3b5K650nB4
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    2. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      As I wrote in @madebyhistory a few weeks ago, health prevention does not need to be either/or--either fighting aerial transmission or fighting contact transmission, but that is the culture built up over the last 100-150 years.https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/21/revisiting-19th-century-medical-idea-could-help-address-covid-19/ …

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    3. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      However, the knowledge that diseases spread more readily in (over)crowded spaces and the late #C19 enthusiasm for ventilation did not translate into better ventilation practices. Where public health met urban governance and private property, it met resistance.

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    4. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      The Tenement Acts in New York State are such a clear example of this problem. See my and @KaraSchlichting's open access article for how invisible inequalities of fresh air and temperatures were KNOWINGLY built into the urban environment. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/101613/j.jhes.5.122472.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y …

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    5. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      Through the Tenement Acts, health reformers and legislators tried to require ventilation and other necessary sanitary provisions in NYC apartments (ie tenements), but builders and landowners worked around that goal via James Ware's design for dumbell tenements.

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    6. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      These buildings maximized the building space on NYC's narrow lots and provided windows--but not the ventilation these windows were meant to provide. When dumbbells were built side by side, windows opened on air shafts rather than fresh air.

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    7. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 8 May 2021

      While I appreciate @zeynep's optimism for how different public health would be if airborne transmission had been accepted sooner, changing the environment in healthful ways requires as much (prob. more) political will than scientific knowledge. The two have rarely moved in step.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2021
      Replying to @MelanieKiechle

      I agree, but if the key scientific agencies and some scientists, too had not acted like this, maybe it was an opportunity to move faster especially since pandemic/emergency. Some of that plexiglass & disinfection money could go into... opening windows, HEPA, mask fit/filter etc.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 May 2021
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      Parts of the scientific community dismissing/resisting/rejecting the scientific expertise and findings of another group among the scientific community despite rapidly accumulating and pretty clear evidence is part of the story here.

      7:58 AM - 9 May 2021
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        2. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 9 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          That’s also a big part of the story of the slow acceptance/transition into germ theory, and why Chapin et al made germs and miasma oppositional. Nancy Tomes is great on this in Gospel of Germs, explaining why early adopters of the scientific evidence for germs were zealots.

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        3. Melanie Kiechle‏ @MelanieKiechle 9 May 2021
          Replying to @MelanieKiechle @zeynep

          I’ll add the transition seems “slow” in hindsight, as do the frustrations of this past year. Historically speaking, both changes in knowledge are fairly rapid—and making room for BOTH aerial and contact spread, as you argue, is important for scientists, public health, & public.

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