Need a theory of observed epidemiology that fits physics, virology, mitigations and their results. I've yet to encounter one on it being mainly droplets—close contact being important fits both theories, but little else does. (Where is all the close contact outdoors transmission?)
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Replying to @zeynep @jljcolorado and
Has it ever occurred to you that there just isn't enough evidence to decide? The over certainty of some of the covid social media influencers drives me crazy. I guess you don't get a lot of followers when you say "we just don't know yet."
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Replying to @twitskeptic @jljcolorado and
I guess it just hasn't occurred to you that I've been working on this for two years, and besides multiple lengthy public-facing articles in Atlantic, New York Times, etc, I've co-authored directly-relevant peer-reviewed work on this in The Lancet, Science, PNAS, BMJ?
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Replying to @zeynep @twitskeptic and
The question of what makes you so certain about me that I'm a "social media influencer" out to get followers on topics I don't know much about, is left to the reader as exercise.
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Replying to @Merz @twitskeptic and
Nah, I don't need more time—it couldn't have been more telling than the past two years.
I'm good, thanks. Similarly, MDs on WHO committees *yelled* at the aerosol scientists on this thread, but time has spoken there as well. Not everyone with degrees can do good science.
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Jeremy Kamil Retweeted Jeffrey Tran 🪄 🕳 😓
Yes but be careful of semantics & absolutist rhetoric. Many ppl don't understand what airborne/aerosol actually means IRL re: SARS2 spread. It's a complex topic that defies simplistic explanations. Even Carl Zimmer wisely shows the "virus in a tiny drop"https://twitter.com/jeffreytran/status/1473097037935792135?s=20 …
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Replying to @macroliter @zeynep and
I agree that many people don't understand what airborne transmission means. We have written a paper explaining common misconceptions (and another one soon-to-appear in
@TheLancet as a response)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.022 …2 replies 6 retweets 21 likes -
Replying to @jljcolorado @macroliter and
This is also a good one: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n913 …pic.twitter.com/NjBIouGf5s
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Replying to @jljcolorado @macroliter and
I also agree on misunderstandings, why I spent so much time writing public articles on multiple aspects of this. Today, I went into a post-office, and saw these people working behind non-airtight plastic barrier with terrible masks, doors closed, no HEPA. This isn't semantics.
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A correct understanding of the transmission mechanism would empower people, direct investment to correct mitigations, assuage fears, encourage outdoors (instead of stupid beach shaming) and help with other respiratory diseases. We aren't into Twitter battles for the fun of it.
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Replying to @zeynep @jljcolorado and
There were elderly people in there with me, and I was the only one wearing an N95, amidst the Omicron wave in NYC and when we know elderly will have especially difficult time fending off antibody evading variants. Nobody has been explaining this to people. TWO YEARS IN.
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Replying to @zeynep @jljcolorado and
The amount of money and effort spent doing incorrect mitigations like plexiglass that can increase infections when HEPA filters never sell out? When there's been no official effort to help people avoid the flood of counterfeit N95s? Nobody is upset because of personal obsession.
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