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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

✊🏼 🫡 During the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of individuals"needlessly lost their lives due to misinformation & disinformation. Now is the time to develop better strategies for communication between scientists & the public" - recent AAI president Gary Koretzky 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Although we all hope that it will be a long time before we face the next global pandemic, now is a great opportunity to reflect on how the scientists interfaced with the public as we faced the challenge of COVID19. There is much for which we can be proud. Even so, hundreds of thousands of individuals need lessly lost their lives due to misinformation and disinformation. Now is the time to develop better strategies for communication between scientists and the public, both to improve the baseline of understanding and to be prepared for the next emergency.

Gary Koretzky1,2
1Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

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Catlover @catlove40476297.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I remember an estimate of about half a million Americans.. horrific numbers. Disinformation, science denial, cause millions of deaths

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