Given this is Twitter, here's my piece from mid-May on why we should have kept indoor mask mandates longer. (Again, please read it: the focus not really about the threat to the vaccinated).https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-masks-vaccines.html …
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Also, my piece from May warning about Delta (feel free to compare with what else was being said and was prominent in media and social media around that time).https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/covid-vaccine-variants.html …
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Twitter retirement date, maybe: when people accusing me of Not Following The Science™ for downplaying masks for the benefit of the vaccinated numerically outnumber people accusing me of Not Following The Science™ for advocating for masks for all before the CDC and the WHO.
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But the serious part: Vaccines that can save lives and turn this disease into a pre-pandemic baseline risk are available but in dire short-supply. We'de not putting in *everything we can* into solve this. Every day that passes is dramatically narrowing the window of any impact.
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That's my objection to the lopsided attention to vaccine breakthrough cases for the immunocompetent, without same attention to the accompanying part: not only are they few, they're overwhelmingly asymptomatic or mild. Billions around the world deserve this. And there's no time.
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It's been hours and this is still bothering me. Billions have no access to vaccines and are facing a terrible new variant that's highly transmissible and likely more severe, and yet one vaccine breakthrough case that's barely noticeable to the person gets this much attention.pic.twitter.com/8Z4DerznzW
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“Man bites dog” beats “Dog bites man”
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well you are focusing on the lab leak hypothesis, so it is clear what the real threat is, correct? this is part of an analysis i saw of your reportingpic.twitter.com/X8MyYuEuaz
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Dropping the masks was a terrible recommendation from CDC. It signaled the pandemic was over. It gave false sense of security to vaccinated people and cover to the unvaccinated anti-maskers.
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The removal of the mask recommendation was political and wrong. Too many people were asking, "if we are vaccinated why do we need a mask?". I believe officials thought this contradiction would have a political backlash and possibly increase hesitancy. I now find myself...
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