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
Yes, N95 is better. But telling people their surgical masks or the type Dr Kuppalli was using are useless is wrong (not to mention rude). Also, I see plenty of people wearing masks below the nose. It's not because they didn't read your column but because masks are uncomfortable.
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Replying to @QuantumOverlord @macroliter and
I didn't say they were useless. Gave a 50% efficiency which is not bad, and provided a peer-reviewed reference for it: And again, I criticized
@WHO, not the person wearing the mask. She was a@WHO official wearing a@WHO-imprinted mask and thus representing the organizationpic.twitter.com/d14EnPDNAx
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Replying to @jljcolorado @QuantumOverlord and
Yeah, nobody has ever said surgical masks were useless. In fact, they can even be appropriate for certain settings, transmission levels, vaccination status etc. But N95 > surgical > cloth mask needs to be communicated *and* explained why, to empower people to make their choice.
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Replying to @zeynep @jljcolorado and
No disagreement on importance of communicating differences between types of masks and when each might be appropriate. As to, "Nobody has ever said surgical masks were useless"... Anti-maskers and FFP2/N95 proselytizers alike say *exactly* that ALL. THE. TIME.
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Replying to @IKostenas @zeynep and
"Nobody has ever said surgical masks were useless"pic.twitter.com/HDmEvxj2vr
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Okay that random person is wrong. None of the scientists I worked and co-authored with on aerosol transmission have ever said surgical masks are useless. If that random person was a WHO official directing the pandemic response globally, yeah I'd totally be upset.
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Replying to @zeynep @macroliter and
unfortunately, out in the real world, most people don't even know there are distinctions to be made -- that a transparently thin cloth mask, or a surgical mask worn under the nose, are not protective
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Replying to @ToddLencz @zeynep and
My general assumption is that most people who do that know full well it's not protective but want to (a) comply with mask mandates and/or (b) respond to social pressure to wear a mask.
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