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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2021

    Excellent NYT piece by @linseymarr on how the recognition of the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (finally, belatedly) should inform how we approach mitigations for influenza, which causes so much suffering every year. Flu shouldn't be "just the flu." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/opinion/covid-flu-air-transmission.html …pic.twitter.com/IxCByJTRFx

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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted ConcernedCitizen

        There wasn't a word in the piece about general mask mandates for flu! Ventilation, air-filtering, some technologies that can kill germs in high-risk/crowded places, etc. Voluntary mask wearing can be deployed as appropriate, as Asian countries long have.https://twitter.com/Ubi_est_veritas/status/1450457994190200834 …

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        ConcernedCitizen @Ubi_est_veritas
        Replying to @zeynep @ScottGottliebMD @linseymarr
        I’m all for encouragement of mask-wearing if one is sick, but please, oh, please, let’s not mandate mask-wearing for all every winter.
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      2. 1983‏ @LGFi0rnkELg0KDn 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @zeynep @linseymarr

        What is an appropriate level of intervention? a HEPA filter in every room in the world? There's been at least two studies showing how prominent virus' live in the air of hospital rooms despite good ventilation

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      3. Kasiality  🔥 🌍 ⚛️ 💉 🏙‏ @Kasiality 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @LGFi0rnkELg0KDn @zeynep @linseymarr

        Ventilation in American schools is abysmal, we basically poison developing brains with CO2. Let’s start there.

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      1. Up North Kayak‏ @ppjvpp 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @zeynep @ScottGottliebMD @linseymarr

        Companies, especially small ones, will make no changes. Too expensive. At my workplace, when it was stifling hot in the summer (again) they finally called the Hvac people. Turns out the filters were totally blocked. And likely had been for the whole pandemic.

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      1. Karthik Chandramouli‏ @pujalords 19 Oct 2021
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        So many other diseases and nosocomial infections might be prevented with a concerted effort to systematically improve air quality and ventilation in our society. TB, for example…https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/health/tuberculosis-transmission-aerosols.html …

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      2. ConcernedCitizen‏ @Ubi_est_veritas 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @zeynep @ScottGottliebMD @linseymarr

        I’m all for encouragement of mask-wearing if one is sick, but please, oh, please, let’s not mandate mask-wearing for all every winter.

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      3. Stephen Boisvert‏ @srboisvert 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @Ubi_est_veritas @zeynep and

        We haven't even mandated mask-wearing for all in a deadly pandemic so I don't think you need to worry.

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      2. Vidor‏ @Vidor1 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @zeynep @linseymarr

        Been wondering when we'd get to the "you all have to wear masks forever" stage.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @Vidor1

        Clearly, it will happen before the "when will people read things before responding with whatever they had been thinking about forever regardless of its relationship to the actual content of the piece" stage, because that seems impossible for some people.

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      1. Tom Corddry‏ @TCorddry 19 Oct 2021
        Replying to @zeynep @linseymarr

        Also from NYT, aerosol spread for TB, long thought to be primarily spread by droplets.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/health/tuberculosis-transmission-aerosols.html …

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