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Gary Slutkin, MD Profile picture
Gary Slutkin, MD
@GSlutkin
Physician, epidemiologist formerly World Health Organization; Founder & CEO, Cure Violence; COVID Task Force; infectious disease epidemic methods; Global Health
Jul 7, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1/ We should consider the #mask like a #condom as it blocks viral transmission. Promoting condom use vs AIDS also helped ppl understand the other safe behaviors to be adopted e.g. sticking to 1 partner. Likewise effect depended on what other person was doing. Here's tips how👇 2/Also similar to the AIDS epidemic, there is asyptomatic spead & you cant tell who's infected. Likewise it was common that people made assumptions about who's safe to be with based on how they look & if they know them ("it can't be him, hes a great guy", "she looks ok").
Aug 8, 2019 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
The importance of CDC having funds to study violence is that we need health based research.
bit.ly/2MdHHYX We need health based research on violence because violence is a health problem.