Debates about the transition to endemicity show how science is not a homogeneous enterprise. This paper from…

Debates about the transition to endemicity show how science is not a homogeneous enterprise. This paper from an immunological perspective is quite upbeat. Evolutionary virologists seem less so. Etc. What to do when the science is inconclusive? /1 https://t.co/GoZB8wjfYn

In my opinion, you do basic risk management. You do everything you can to stop the spread of the disease. The worst that can happen is you avoid adding another endemic disease to the public health burden. Another piece in the paper today from leading virologists here arguing…/2

…that prevalence doesn’t really matter i.e. ignore case numbers. I struggle with the idea that it doesn’t matter how many people get infected with any infectious disease. And further, infection seems a key indicator of the quality of…/3 https://t.co/hOLAAY5OLf

…a society’s basic organisation. Its food, water and air. Its distribution of wealth and resources. The quality of its work and workplaces. Etc. There’s an ecological dimension to all infectious disease as well, because diseases exist in ecosystems, that include us. Overall…

…it would be nice if we took broader lessons from infectious disease outbreaks, about all of those societal things. Rather than have both politicians and some experts try to rationalise them to protect the status quo. /end