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It's been about six months since I posted this, and I think this question has changed to "what are the ethics of critique in the time of COVID-19?"
During the pandemic, public health has become inseparable from so much everyday discourse.
So, this is a more appropriate framing. https://twitter.com/StephenMolldrem/status/1242885318296010758
During the pandemic, public health has become inseparable from so much everyday discourse.
So, this is a more appropriate framing. https://twitter.com/StephenMolldrem/status/1242885318296010758
(73) “...isolation and stress during lockdown, lapses in nursing home care and missed Covid-19 diagnoses are all likely contributing factors to the unusually high dementia death toll, adding to the devastation the virus has brought to U.S. nursing homes.” https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/16/dementia-deaths-coronavirus-nursing-homes-416530?__twitter_impression=true
(76) It is difficult to think of an agency that has found itself more plagued by scandal and error, and frankly besieged, than CDC during COVID-19. CDC is taking beatings from all sides, and then periodically screws up in what seems like very basic ways. https://twitter.com/CShalby/status/1308094630672572416
(76.1) I've observed the question of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 become a hotly contested issue, with scientific camps taking shape and squaring off.
CDC releasing guidance seeming to confirm one camp's position, and then walking it back... talk about confidence-shaking.
CDC releasing guidance seeming to confirm one camp's position, and then walking it back... talk about confidence-shaking.
(77) When we talk about trust in public health, whose trust are we talking about?
(77.1) For an agency like CDC, it seems like the trust of the scientific community, providers, professional orgs, and state and local public health stakeholders are the main vehicles for supporting overall trust in public health, with "public trust" being largely secondary.
(77.2) If basic forms of confidence in public health and institutions like CDC and HHS is shaken in communities of major mediators like these (which seems to be happening, yes?) what might that mean for the future of public trust in public health?
(78) With due respect to the authors, the Obama administration's National HIV/AIDS Strategy failed. We are still at ~54% HIV viral suppression in the United States (the lowest of any high income country). SARS-CoV-2 is also a completely different pathogen. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1308585895742799873
(78.1) We need a National COVID-19 Strategy, but using the National HIV/AIDS Strategy as a starting point is both wrongheaded and literally a demonstrated roadmap to failure.
(80) Where were you when you found out that Donald Trump had COVID-19? https://twitter.com/StephenMolldrem/status/1311906433227603968
(82) This is so vile. https://twitter.com/edburmila/status/1312045955563376641
(83) Critique in the time of COVID-19. https://twitter.com/minh81/status/1312385718736621568
(85) There is a new White House COVID-19 tracker project ( @CovidWH) that's part of the Atlantic's COVID-19 tracker ( @COVID19tracking).
It seems to be a crowdsourced open data project with dedicated staff.
I've never seen anything like it. (ht @marganina) https://public.tableau.com/profile/peter.james.walker#!/vizhome/COVID-19attheWhiteHouse-ContactTracking/Home
It seems to be a crowdsourced open data project with dedicated staff.
I've never seen anything like it. (ht @marganina) https://public.tableau.com/profile/peter.james.walker#!/vizhome/COVID-19attheWhiteHouse-ContactTracking/Home
(85.1) I'm going to set aside the ethical questions for now, such as the fact that the SCOTUS nominee's children are included in this data visualization (although not named), and a lot of others, and just focus on the data infrastructure and what this comes from, for a moment.
(85.2) I have been tweeting on this thread and otherwise for while about these new classes of public health/COVID-19 data trackers that have developed during the pandemic, mostly housed at media outlets: https://twitter.com/StephenMolldrem/status/1247731002849382402.
(85.3) Here is another tweet I made about @TheAtlantic's tracker specifically: https://twitter.com/StephenMolldrem/status/1276159982355066880.
Anyway, these have been developed by media firms for a range of reasons, including to supplement public health data, but also to generate ostensibly better data than PH depts.
Anyway, these have been developed by media firms for a range of reasons, including to supplement public health data, but also to generate ostensibly better data than PH depts.
(85.4) There have also been visualizations of clusters in media reports. That is not really a new feature of the public health infectious disease discourse though. These privately-maintained trackers are really unique to the COVID-19 pandemic, so far as I can tell.
