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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Linsey Marr

      Useful thread from @linseymarr on the ongoing confusion around the term "airborne." I tried alternatives and arrived at the same place: we should use the term because it's the clearest one we have, and also use the opportunity to update its hospital/infection control definitions.https://twitter.com/linseymarr/status/1399761760983334912 …

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      Linsey MarrVerified account @linseymarr
      For the general public, the clearest way to convey how the virus is transmitted is to call it airborne. Hospitals should not have a monopoly on the term. We live with a different meaning of the word "chart" in hospitals. /9
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2021

      I tend to be a pragmatist. I even had this conversation with Linsey a few times. Whatever word got us to have the correct mental model/mitigations and overcome the resistance and infection control protocol confusion would be fine. (I tried to make "short-range aerosols" stick!)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2021

      But dancing around the term isn't solving the problem or clearing the confusion either, so lose-lose. We have left healthcare workers alternatively under-protected or sometimes overly-afraid—what they think of "droplet" precautions can really help with aerosols/airborne, too.

      11:17 AM - 1 Jun 2021
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2021

          If it were just we thought it was droplets but it is more Y aerosols, and thus airborne, but we need to avoid airborne because [INSERT REASON], it might have worked. The problem is we also misunderstood the mechanisms of droplets and aerosols, so more than a terminology problem.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2021

          So avoiding the word has landed us in a situation that dampens the benefits of our better understanding of aerosol transmission, but it doesn't reassure healthcare workers because without the updated understanding, they think airborne necessarily implies measles-like diseases.

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        2. Thelonious Funk‏ @theonemanzone 1 Jun 2021
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          But @linseymarr just said that droplet precautions "work" in hospitals.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jun 2021
          Replying to @theonemanzone @linseymarr

          Exactly, that is why we should change the terms and update them.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Ian Hobson‏ @ianandbike 1 Jun 2021
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          So true. Mass confusion

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