Epidemiologists

• Dr. Eric Ding on Twitter, May 16, 2021, says:

"KEEP WEARING THE MASK—We card-carrying epidemiologists (with formal doctorate in epidemiology) know what we are talking about. Vast majority of 700+ epidemiologists surveyed says we would keep wearing masks for 1 year or longer. "

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"With Hugs and Haircuts, U.S. Epidemiologists Start Returning (Carefully!) to Everyday Life," NYTimes, May 12, 2021:

In a new informal survey this month by The New York Times, 723 epidemiologists in the United States responded to questions about their life...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that fully vaccinated people could gather indoors with other vaccinated people without precautions, but it did not specify how many households could do so at once. In the survey, a plurality of epidemiologists said they would recommend limiting such gatherings to two households at a time. But a sizable number said larger gatherings among vaccinated people were OK.

The C.D.C. has also said that people no longer need masks when they are outdoors and can maintain physical distance from others, like on a walk, regardless of whether they’re vaccinated. Most epidemiologists agreed.

“This policy was always idiotic,” said Joe Lewnard, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who supported maskless exercise.