@angie_rasmussen  @SaskiaPopescuThe  fact that the restaurant owners go ahead with these and people go into them shows our communication has failed. Giving people correct intuitions about the virus is what science communication is about. So many other examples, too.

@angie_rasmussen  @SaskiaPopescuMaybe  people who work in hospitals or are in the scientific community understand the details but not the public. It's almost December of 2020 and places are still closing for cleanings without addressing ventilation. I think this is dramatic and profound failure of communication.

@angie_rasmussen  @SaskiaPopescuThe  CDC finally updated wording as late as fall, but actionable guidance remains weak to non-existent. WHO started putting in the word ventilation over summer, but it was September and October when public-facing pages got some updates and they *still* aren't clear.

@angie_rasmussen  @SaskiaPopescuSo  sadly utter and absolute failure of communication that will go down in future textbooks as what not to do. I am still contacted daily by frustrated members of public and administrators because I wrote *one* article on ventilation—they don't have what they need from CDC or WHO.

@misguidedsoul7  @angie_rasmussenY  @jeremychryslere  @SaskiaPopescup  @samhorwich . @GovMurphy  Terrible. But hard to blame political authorities and the public when public health authorities have botched the communication part. People following the right scientists on Twitter may get it, but not so for the public.

@cbr160  @misguidedsoul7Y  @angie_rasmussene  @jeremychryslera  @SaskiaPopescuh  @samhorwich  @GovMurphysame  pretty much everywhere. Terrible failure.

@EricTopol  Also I wrote this today because I hope the role of the scientists—starting with the ones in China—who helped make these vaccines possible but will not make large amounts of money from all this will not be forgotten—especially those in China who took personal risks.

I wrote about the Chinese scientist who kick-started it all by publishing the SARS-CoV-2 sequence in an open repository on January 10th—without waiting for authorization. Two days later, Moderna had the vaccine. Just ten months later, we have a vaccine.

American health-care workers may soon get a vaccine that has shown 94% efficacy in trials. To understand magnitude of this achievement, remember that even 18 months was considered a ridiculously optimistic vaccine timeline. Without that sequence, it couldn't get started.

They had the sequence for the vaccine. So what will be injected to millions in just a few weeks, they had the design