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Reality: A lot of us said back in the spring that if we didn't get serious about controlling SARS-CoV-2, then fall sports couldn't safely happen.

Fiction: We don't like sports because something something our liberal agenda something something. (1/5)
Reality: We said those downplaying COVID-19 in the spring were putting all of us at risk of virus resurgence; then June and July happened.

Fiction: We were instilling irrational fear because something something we're coming for your freedoms something something. (2/5)
Reality: We said young adults and school-aged children could transmit SARS-CoV-2 even if they didn't have severe COVID-19 complications.

Fiction: We want to keep schools closed and something something University Presidents are cancel culture something something. (3/5)
Reality: We have consistently said to maintain physical distancing, wear masks, and try to move activities to well-ventilated areas or outdoors.

Fiction: We have double-standards and something something we hate cops something something. (4/5)
Reality: We have encouraged evidence-based decision making & controlled clinical trials to identify interventions that improve outcomes.

Fiction: We're being overly protective of drug manufacturers and something something just hate hydroxychloroquine something something. (5/5)
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This is very inaccurate and misleading. Using cigarette vapors and aromatic compounds released from smoking is not appropriate to illustrate SARS-CoV-2 transmission. (1/4)
From the data we have, the primary route of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is respiratory droplets. These are emitted in high quantities when speaking loudly, yelling, chanting, singing, coughing, and sneezing.
They fall to the ground and usually travel <2 meters. (2/4)
Can longer range transmission occur? Sure.
Can the respiratory droplets that have landed retain infectious potential for a while (fomites)? Yes.
But these are not the primary source of transmission, from the data we have. They are more the exception than the rule. (3/4)
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Did the #BlackLivesMatter protests lead to the surge in SARS-CoV-2?
Short answer: No
Longer answer: Nooooooooo

This is a racist and fact-free claim by those whose goal is to shift blame from an incompetent federal response onto young people of color.
Got the receipts too (1/5)
In NYC, hospitalizations are at their lowest since March. The city hosted some of the largest BLM protests. (2/5)
Same can be said for Philadelphia, which had weeks of BLM protests. (3/5)
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Virus Latency, what is it and what does it mean?
Been seeing miscommunication about SARS-CoV-2 and latency, so here's a brief thread on what "latent" or "latency" means in virus infection.
Viruses fall into two broad categories: chronic and acute (1/11)
A chronic virus will infect its host for extended periods of time, often the lifetime of the host. HIV and herpesviruses are examples of this.
An acute infecting virus, such as influenza and rotavirus, are cleared from the body after a few days or weeks (2/11)
A chronic virus can go into latency. This is when a virus is present within a cell, but not actively producing more infectious virus particles. For example, when a herpesvirus infects a cell, its genome can remain in that cell as long as that cell is alive. (3/11)
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