Fact Check: Does COVID-19 Lose 90 Percent Infectiousness in 20 Minutes?
"We should definitely be wary of any tabloid headlines using the paper to urge us back to the office prematurely"
A good summary
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"We should definitely be wary of any tabloid headlines using the paper to urge us back to the office prematurely"
A good summary
iflscience.com/health-and-med…
@IFLScience
2/ Short version:
- Lab preprint very interesting for scientists, doesn't make wild real-world claims
- Taken at face value, preprint results contradict lots of real-world epi data
- Nevertheless @Guardian did just that, as if lab preprint results were the truth in real world
- Lab preprint very interesting for scientists, doesn't make wild real-world claims
- Taken at face value, preprint results contradict lots of real-world epi data
- Nevertheless @Guardian did just that, as if lab preprint results were the truth in real world
3/ @Guardian article reprinted, exaggerated more elsewhere to say that airborne transmission doesn't matter
When we know that superspreading events are airborne & major importance (nature.com/articles/d4158…). 1 event (Wuhan wet market) gave us pandemic
When we know that superspreading events are airborne & major importance (nature.com/articles/d4158…). 1 event (Wuhan wet market) gave us pandemic
https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1479250147330637825
4/ Curiously, lots of folks that have told us before that lab PEER-REVIEWED papers had not relevance to the real world, bc they were lab and not w/ people, are now trumpeting this lab PREPRINT as if it was truth for real world
Using it as twisted PR to continue to deny airborne
Using it as twisted PR to continue to deny airborne
5/ There are VERY powerful forces that have resisted for 2 years accepting airborne transmission, despite damage
In particular govts. & businesses that much prefer to tell us to do INDIVIDUAL things, want to avoid anything THEY have to do that costs $$
In particular govts. & businesses that much prefer to tell us to do INDIVIDUAL things, want to avoid anything THEY have to do that costs $$
https://twitter.com/mjb302/status/1480195392771969035
6/ I explored the forces of denial in this thread. No doubt they are finding the misinterpretation of this preprint, and ignoring mountains of peer-reviewed evidence that prove airborne trans., very convenient:
https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1470825435579621377
7/ A thread where I discuss some ideas about what's going on. Others have as well, as noted in article on first tweet.
https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1480927297926479884
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