#Masking

Rebecca

beakpie

It’s my birthday this week. Despite having virtually ignored my birthday for the last few years, I have something to celebrate this year. After a long process, I have been

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. @WHO weighs in on the "to mask, or not to mask (the public)" question. "...there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask ... by healthy persons in the

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Ok, was trying to stay off Twitter until Saturday but this question of children masking outdoors (in camps, etc.) keeps coming up. Let's discuss #outdoortransmission. Viral particles disperse quickly in

Grant LaFleche

GrantRants

As we have reported, the anti-mask groups have present a number of false claims about pandemic safety measures, including claims about masks being a violation of human rights. The hyperbole

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

"Masking is like wearing a seat belt, and you do that"No, it isn't. Illogical argumentIf you don't wear seat belt:Fired from job? Denied school? Denied entry to buy food? Jailed?

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

OK, let's address these "why did we lock down if BLM protests are ok" takes. There are lots of pundits arguing this means public health advice is all relative to

Nick Lawyer

nick_lawyer

Masking mandate for MT is a good step and I applaud @GovernorBullock for it. But it’s only one step. The @imperialcollege report on nonpharmacologic control of C19 spread estimate up

Liz Mair

LizMair

Here's what I think is really going on here. CDC isn't actually worried about vaccinated individuals getting or transmitting COVID. They're worried that if a bunch of people suddenly stop

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jvipondmd

A rare Joe twitter thread, on universal masking, covid, and public health: A natural population level science experiment occurring in real-time in Central Europe, that anyone can follow at

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 177Nice to re-start our Covid grand rounds today. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yyw5myns . We covered a range of epi issues (the shape of the pandemic, changing mortality

matthew remski

matthewremski

In the spring/summer/fall of 2020 the yoga anti-lockdown world was a cluster of white fingers pointing at India as a COVID success story. The posts flooded in from spiritual tourists

Eamon Hamilton

eamonhamilton

Anyone want to pass the time at home by having a crack at building a scale model? A thread. First things first: You don’t have to do it! If you

swampy moped go brr

thebeifongclan

how characters from avatar the last airbender would smell like: a thread aang would smell like the sun katara would smell like lotuses and salt water sokka would smell like

Scott Schaeffer

The_Dr_S

"Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19"- World Health Organization, April 6, 2020https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331693/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.3-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y "There is curren

Emre Kelly

EmreKelly

NASA briefing on SpaceX Crew-1 / Merlin engine anomaly underway. Two engines being swapped out on that Falcon 9 first stage. SpaceX's Koenigsmann: After GPS scrub, saw that engines I

Genève Campbell

bergerbell

This is austerity being sold as public health. CUNY will continue to be mostly remote in Fall 2021. Their reopening timeline is absolutely stunning:https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/reopening/citytech-reopening.aspx In Fall 2021, “in response