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13 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The fact that what is likely to be a fake Tony Fauci Twitter account @Fauci gained 57k followers within minutes tells you a lot about how vulnerable we are to misinformation, abuse of trust etc

A #Fauci account would be verified & wouldn’t have a @WHO link #covid19
2/ The fake #Fauci saga ends.

Please please please be careful out there folks.

Our ability to sort out truth from lies has never been more important. #covid19
3/ And I totally hear the comments saying that this also reflects how much people are looking for a credible, trusted voice — here’s to hoping the real Dr. Fauci comes to @Twitter #covid19
4/ Now that we can poke some fun at it too...the real Fauci watching the fake Fauci gain 75k followers within minutes 😁

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11 Dec
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1/ New paper out in @JAMAInternalMed on evaluating different types of MASKS and their filtration efficiency in indoor settings for #covid19
2/ They used a particle generator that put out sodium chloride aerosol particles “slightly smaller” than a #SARSCOV2 virion; the environment was set to mimic typical indoor settings #covid19
3/ They measured the fitted filtration efficiency (FFE)- essentially by looking at the concentration of particles that got through the mask (using a sampling probe in the mask) vs the concentration in the air - total testing time of 3 minutes #covid19
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10 Dec
“Eating indoors at a restaurant is one of the riskiest things you can do in a pandemic,” she said. “Even if there is distancing, as this shows and other studies show, the distancing is not enough.” @linseymarr

latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/ Diagram of airflow in a South Korean restaurant in which those who were sitting in the path of the air downstream from infected case got infected (incl more than 6 feet away)

Those facing away from the airflow did not

#covid19
3/ Thread below — just because something is open right now doesn’t mean it’s safe. High risk activities are high risk activities. Over 3,000 Americans died yesterday from this virus. #covid19
Read 7 tweets
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9 Dec
1/ Trying to reconcile many thoughts but realizing they aren’t fundamentally at odds

Yes, we must avoid shaming each other- kindness is key

Yes, we all need more support from our governments/institutions

Yes, our personal actions do matter; they do make a difference

#covid19
2/ Recently wrote about stigma & why that kept some of my own friends from telling each other they had been exposed to #covid19

Shame is a losing strategy; it may transiently make us feel morally superior; it hurts others; it spreads more virus silently

bostonglobe.com/2020/11/30/opi…
3/ Wrote about fatigue @WBUR — it’s hurting all of us. We still need to believe even our seemingly small, insignificant choices do in fact matter. We won’t know if we avoided becoming the next super spreader- but we may have & that’s a big deal #covid19

wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…
Read 4 tweets
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8 Dec
1/ Been saying this for a while, but I’m going to say it again. Do not indoor dine right now. Order takeout. Tip restaurants. Support businesses. But I would not be dining indoors. Last night, there were no ICU beds left at a hospital where I work in Boston. #COVID19
2/ Policies reflect many things— but they don’t always reflect what is safest from a health perspective. With exponentially rising cases, hospitalizations & deaths, high risk activities are high risk. Just because something is open doesn’t mean it is “safe”. #covid19
3/ Is this recommendation I am making fair to restaurants/ staff? What’s actually most unfair to them is that they are forced to remain open & send workers in high risk settings bc they aren’t receiving enough $ protections in a runaway pandemic.

#covid19
Read 6 tweets
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6 Dec
1/ The year before #covid19, my academic focus was largely on Ebola & epidemic response in the global health setting. From Feb 2019 to Jan 2020, I worked as the editor of the @JournalofEthics theme issue on the ethics of pandemic response.

journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/culture-…
2/ We had the great privilege of contributions from many experts—- and we covered topics ranging from how anthropology can help us better understand how to work alongside communities during an epidemic...

journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-sh…
3/ to the ethics of emergency vaccine distribution— both immensely relevant again. (@BhadeliaMD co-authored the latter; @Real_Ironist - you may find the former ⬆️ interesting)

journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/making…
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5 Dec
“The CDC is urging “universal mask use” indoors for the first time”

This is pretty unbelievable if this is 1st time they have recommended this. For *months* many of us have been pushing for a mask mandate for indoor spaces. #covid19 washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12…
2/ While we can’t regulate what people do in private settings — although even here masks are so important— a public indoor mask mandate is long overdue

#covid19
3/ We know spread is most efficient indoors, yet our current mask mandates end up leading to people masking outside where risk is much lower, and then taking those masks off either in the workplace or during social gatherings #covid19
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