Looks like wearing masks does protect from colds and influenza.
Looks like Asian countries knew something we didn’t all along.
We don’t have to wear a mask forever, but once COVID is done if vulnerable people choose to wear a mask that’s A-OK.
With certain benign interventions (like mask wearing) that make logical sense and have observational data, the absence of randomized trial data doesn’t mean they aren’t the prudent course of action.
Absence of RCT evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. @jeremyphoward
In many Asian countries mask wearing pre COVID was just routine. Many people just did it. And it was not stigmatizing.
Even within Asia, wearing a mask pre COVID was common in Hong Kong but signaled you were not well in Singapore.
I hope wealthy countries and Pharma set aside vaccines for poorer countries. Let’s makes sure vulnerable populations are protected. I heard for example in Ghana many hospitals are full. If healthcare workers get sick how do people get care?
Leaders have to brainstorm and come up with plans to help countries that cannot manufacture vaccines for themselves. We cannot afford to let half the world not have vaccines till 2022. google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…
The leader of a big highly successful company told me they don’t use metrics or targets to judge or push employee productivity. They motivate employees to excel. When employee morale is high, productivity follows.
We have a public health infrastructure problem compounding missteps that will take a long time to reverse even after new competent leadership takes over. They are inheriting big problems. I hope I am wrong & that we do get a third of the population vaccinated in the next 3 months
India on the other hand despite huge disparity in wealth compared to the US, has good public health infrastructure. They also the foresight early on and manufactured lots of vaccine even before the trials were completed. @SerumInstIndia