The CDC wasn't "wrong in May." The "alpha" variant was the dominant strain in May, not delta. And as the insert in this tweet notes, the CDC changed directions on masks because unvaccinated people quit wearing masks (mask mandates went away, is actually what happened) while vaccinated people were told they didn't have to. I suppose the results were predictable, but if CDC had told the vaccinated in May to keep wearing masks, we'd have a lot of people wondering about the efficacy of the vaccine (it's a fringe movement now; it probably would be mainstream if we'd all accurately predicted the future 2 months out.).White House comms people are right to call out misleading media coverage, but the misleading coverage was a completely predictable result of CDC’s efforts to avoid saying “we were wrong in May.” @DrLeanaWen is spot-on here: https://t.co/LDCoG0BDVc pic.twitter.com/c1q7eNjZ7N
— Lindsay Wiley (@ProfLWiley) July 31, 2021
And those "basic safety protocols"? Pretty much shot to hell, thanks largely to the vaccine and the anxiety around mask wearing/social distancing. We have met the enemy, he is us. Not the CDC.
Godalmightydamn!, Twitter can be tiresome.
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