Thread by @jljcolorado

1/ "SARS-CoV-2 is AIRBORNE" (100% agree)

"If public health doesn't say this clearly, it is MISINFORMATION" (92%)

From large DELPHI study w/ panel of 386 academic, health, NGO, govt experts in COVID-19 from 112 countries published in @NaturePortfolio

nature.com/articles/s4158…

2/ Led by @JVLazarus of @ISGLOBALorg (Spain) along with @jabarocas, @RBaptistaLeite, @SusanMichie, @ProfAbdoolKarim, @LawrenceGostin, @carolin51299534, @CarlosdelRio7, yours truly & many others not on Twitter

Excruciating process to get unbiased & representative #CovidConsensus

3/ Many recommendations on different areas, on which there was significant agreement among all the experts (grouped in areas of prevention, communication, vaccines, treatments, inequities, health systems):

https://twitter.com/JVLazarus/status/1588202954850504705

4/ Nearly 400 individual experts from 110+ countries were asked to:

- help revise statements (several rounds)
- then in the final round, to vote whether they agree or not

[Individual experts abstained from voting on areas where they had no expertise]

nature.com/articles/s4158…

5/ I didn't know most of the experts. Since airborne transmission has been controversial, and e.g. @WHO never talks about it clearly, I expected wide disagreemnt.

So I was pretty shocked that 100% agree that SARS-CoV-2 is an airborne virus

nature.com/articles/s4158…

6/ And even more surprised 92% agreed that when Public Health Orgs. "contribute to the dissemination of FALSE INFORMATION when their communications do not reflect current scientific understanding that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is primarily airborne"

@WHO @CDCgov: that means YOU

7/ This goes to show how divorced @WHO, @CDCgov are from current scientific #COVIDConsensus.

Their continued downplaying of airborne transmission is doing a lot of harm, and if corresponds to interests OTHER than Public Health

My guess at those here:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1562504871340679169

8/ And a much more articulate summary of the reasons why @CDCgov has mostly abandoned public health goals for the pandemic in this talk by @jfeldman_epi:

https://twitter.com/IBHH_UTMB/status/1567978666935652354

Recording here: utmb.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/…

9/ Note that the @TheLancet Commission reached pretty much the same conclusions independently:

[That commission is a different group of experts that reached consensus in a different way]

@WHO @CDCgov @sanidadgob are really FAR from the expert consensus

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1570464298702622720

10/ If you haven't seen it yet, what is the evidence that convinces 100% of the experts in this @Nature study that #COVIDisAirborne?

See for example this article in @TheLancet:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1383566908797059078

11/ For even more evidence about how we know that SARS-CoV-2 (and all or almost all respiratory viruses) are airborne, see also this @ScienceMagazine paper:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1430967286244970502

12/ For evidence on COVID-19 superspreading (of major importance for spread) being dominantly airborne, see this paper:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1479250147330637825

13/ For the historical reasons that made this denial and resistance of #COVIDisAirborne possible by @WHO, @CDCgov @sanidadgob et al., see this recent paper:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1562112453948755974

14/ For some misguided & wasteful things that many Govts around world have done to "fight" COVID transmission, under the misinformation (as the expert consensus of 386 experts on @nature today concludes) of @WHO and @CDCgov has caused:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1471160707794276353

#COVIDHallofShame

14/ Note that even @Twitter (which is not exactly fast or efficient at fighting misinformation) has said that @WHO comms in early pandemic are now KNOWN TO BE WRONG.

Really embarrassing for, @WHO, which has said NOTHING

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1578063884400971777

15/ Este mismo hilo en español / castellano:

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1588227624601473025