Incredible week. First the WHO, now the CDC. It'll take work to have all this be heard, and correctly. Just today, I saw Canada is planning to close beaches "to protect against variants." It takes more than a few website updates to fix a year of messaging.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1390750809005203462 …
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To get the significance of this, *just last week*, key UK infection control societies published a review with the same conflations/errors that CDC and WHO just moved towards correcting—and rated fomite and aerosol transmission (outside of medical procedures) as equally possible.pic.twitter.com/xmMhCrcOBK
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I want to add this here. Also, the story is really fascinating and much longer in terms of the sociology of science, standards of evidence, the scientific details and more, but we cut it to "only" about 5,000 words because that's already so long.
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @corybeIt's all now called "essays" when you do analyses. Thank you! :-D It was fact-checked within an inch of its life by a team. Pretty much every word is deeply documented. Also I have maybe there times the story, that could easily past similar fact-checking, but already so long!2 replies 45 retweets 353 likesShow this thread -
I have a growing databases detailing rules and restrictions around the world—to this day—that made sense from where we started—short-range respiratory droplets—but do not make sense at all, and are even counterproductive. Need to change that AND also emphasize what remains same.
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Aerosol scientists kept telling me that plexiglass barriers might be making things *worse* by blocking ventilation. Just out in Science. Desk shields associated with *increased* illness risk in schools. Closing playground? Also uptick. So many upshots. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/28/science.abh2939 …pic.twitter.com/JZs0CcdCO8
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On that: the epidemiological record is clear. And the science explains why. Note that as I wrote, it’s not completely safe if you engaging close and prolonged contact among unvaccinated people. But it’s absolutely SO much safer. We need a very different approach to the outdoors https://twitter.com/bengardnernyc/status/1390777283858870275 …
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Yes! Some of what we can try to do now, and for likely other respiratory diseases going forward, is not necessarily expensive, and some that is expensive is a better return for us than excessive hygiene theater and plexiglass and all the rest. And good for health in general! https://twitter.com/AllanRicharz/status/1390747339162324999 …
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@linseymarr thread from March 5, 2020. Look at how well it holds up. There are people across the world and across discipline working on all this, many before the pandemic, and in some countries they were listened to (early masking, cluster focus).https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1235641151249616896 …zeynep tufekci added,
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted PM's Office of Japan
I learned much of this first from a virologist and infectious disease specialist in Japan, Dr. Oshitani who had everything—aerosols, presymptomatic transmission, clusters—nailed by February of 2020. For purposes messaging, this is it, from March 2020:https://twitter.com/JPN_PMO/status/1244231002257383424 …
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PM's Office of JapanVerified account @JPN_PMO#COVID19 update: The experts on the novel#coronavirus stress the need to avoid three overlapping conditions. The “Three Cs” are: closed spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings. http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/000061935.pdf … (please follow the guidelines for the public use of this poster.) pic.twitter.com/dON2CasDAE26 replies 281 retweets 906 likesShow this thread -
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I had printed out this exact multicolor poster, and used it convince our Hospital Admin to strictly limit the number of people in indoor break areas and to try to improve ventilation in those areas. Not easy in a "red" area of our state.
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Good for you! And yes that poster is excellent, and we could have—should have—adopted it globally in March 2020.
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It struck me as very ironic back in March thru June 2020 that we (hospital employees) were meticulous in patient care arenas (especially ICU etc) with our exposure but somehow these precautions didn't apply to our breakrooms, which were perceived like the dinner table at home.
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