If you miss someone on day one or day two, at least you find them on day 3 and then stop spread on days 3,4,5,6,7
We don’t transmit on one day only. We have to sever transmission chains.
If that happens on day 1, GREAT!
If on day 3, also GREAT just not as great.
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Stopping transmission is crucial
Vaccines aren’t doing it all too well
Good masks do it well when worn
Distancing does OK but w huge cost
Tests do it well when frequent
Saying rapid tests don’t work Bc they miss day 1, 2 is ridiculous
Perfect has never been an option
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IMO - we are not in a particularly different place from March 2020 in terms of transmission
We have very very few options
Freeze in place
Where masks
Ventilate/filter
KNOW if you are likely infectious and then be able to act
None are perfect except #1 - but impractical
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I can’t believe I have to dig back to March 2020 material & talk about this all again Bc people are realizing tests aren’t perfect. They literally never have been.
It’s good Bc it is Bc ppl are at least now wondering - but god, we’ve massively screwed up information flow
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I’m massively annoyed right now that ppl are going back to let perfect be enemy of good phase.
One of the most short sighted approaches in public health.
A Long line for a single one off PCR test is not close to better than accessible rapid tests. EVEN FOR OMICRON
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Joseph Hibbeln MD has long researched and advocated for optimizing nutrition, including studying things like seafood consumption in pregnancy and role of mercury consumption and whether it is linked to autism. Generally he’s come out saying it’s not.
Summary: No evidence of anti science or anti vaccine. Likely very balanced and nuanced rigorous scientist to serve on ACIP.
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Cody Meissner MD
Is a pediatric infectious disease expert at my Alma mater - Dartmouth. He is a rigorous scientist and has defended vaccines while formally recognizing underlying issues that are causing people to turn away from them - such as vaccine success driving down disease - affording people the luxury of focusing on very rare side effects while forgetting the real impacts of the diseases.
One of the most common tropes is that measles is fine & doesn’t cause damage…
This is highly inaccurate
Measles literally grows by infecting and killing memory immune cells. It causes loss to existing immunity creating vulnerabilities & acute damage that is often severe
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To discover the massive-stealth-impact measles has on immune protection against infections not associated w measles, we looked at what happened in populations after measles outbreaks swept through, decade after decade across nations…