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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted CDC Flu

    There may be a re-examination of other respiratory pathogens now that there's been progress on a better understanding airborne transmission. (1918 pandemic influenza was also overdispersed and we know flu can be airborne plus it's sensitive to ventilation as a mitigation... )https://twitter.com/CDCFlu/status/1395046890450915332 …

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    CDC FluVerified account @CDCFlu
    A new CDC study from South Africa published in @LancetGH found that asymptomatic infections may be a driver of flu transmission. 44% of lab-confirmed, flu infections in the study were in people who reported no symptoms. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3uW66op  pic.twitter.com/rsvQEl3cFr
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    • erdinc uslu 💨💧🌡️🕸️HEPA Filtre / 🚦CO2 Ölçümü Better Masks 4 Melbourne Dominik Peters Dylan Henry Grace Lindsay bellomeraki Joe Alcock cmmcd 🇺🇸 DocDanPgh
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

        Recent letter in Science addressing this: we no longer accept unsafe food or water but have barely budged on indoor air standards for pathogens. (And the resistance and ridicule aerosol scientists endured for the past year made one key obstacle visible). https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/689 …pic.twitter.com/Wj7kHyItwg

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

        This is a great story in Wired on how aerosol experts couldn't even get the scientific establishment to correct a basic error in the physics of what size particle floats in the air. (It's still incorrect but at least I think more people know this now). https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ …pic.twitter.com/ULWiaU5QDY

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

        Many of them are too polite and are focused on progress, which is correct and noble. But I've witnessed some of this and have researched rest, and the way a lot of scientists with expertise on airborne transmission and aerosols were treated was atrocious. Hope we learn from this.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

        I first wrote about the importance of ventilation specifically last July out of frustration that it wasn't more on our agenda.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1288829829912113154 …

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        zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
        We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the science & what it means we should do now. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ … pic.twitter.com/3W2NOs85tN
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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

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        And the recent piece in the New York Times putting it more in historical context.https://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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      7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2021

        Most interesting to work on for me was this piece in the Lancet which put together a causal framework to argue that airborne transmission may well be dominant for COVID-19. Of course, there will be a lot more work on discussion on a topic like this. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00869-2/fulltext …pic.twitter.com/uhSHNSwV2R

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      1. Henry‏ @Fdr1942 19 May 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Why the 'I will shame anyone who wears a mask on flights and trains and subway' people should buzz off. It's a choice.

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      2. Adithya Ramachandran‏ @AdithyaR_YXE 19 May 2021
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        Yep. A lot of people don't realize this - that flu IFR is a small fraction of its CFR just like Covid's. Those who compare flu CFR to Covid IFR to demonstrate some sort of equivalency (even this comparison is a 6-fold difference) are being very disingenous.

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      3. Mike Washburn‏ @mwash1983 19 May 2021
        Replying to @AdithyaR_YXE @zeynep

        Think the Flu CFR will surpass Covid-19 in a few years once people are vaccinated as Flu vaccine is subpar.

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      2. Arieh Kovler‏Verified account @ariehkovler 19 May 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        When I started looking at Covid in early 2020, I was shocked by how little we knew about the flu. We don't know how much reinfection there is with colds and the flu. We don't know why it's seasonal. Now it turns out we didn't even really know how it was transmitted and when.

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      3. Hi! My name is...Chris  👋  🌹‏ @cwark1 19 May 2021
        Replying to @ariehkovler @zeynep

        I also started looking at flu transmission studies last year, but from a physics standpoint since ventilation has been known as a mitigater since 1918. There's quite a bit out there, but most of it in engineering depts. Still a chasm b/w med and physics/eng knowledge.

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