[jph00]

I wrote that - thanks for sharing! :) And also wrote this one with Professor Trish Greenhalgh CBE: https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/ . Our work on this is getting some attention now in the global medical community; e.g. Martin McKee (Prof of European Public Health LSHTM/ Director Research Policy European Observatory. Past President The European Public Health Association) just tweeted:

"an those speaking about face coverings & #COVID19 please read @trishgreenhalgh evidence review. We are talking about CLOTH FACE COVERINGS not surgical masks Coronavirus IS NOT influenza - coverings work better People spread when talking, NOT JUST COUGHING & when PRESYMPTOMATIC"

I'm so happy to see the progress being made on this issue. 11 out of 12 of the largest countries by GDP now recommend public mask wearing (the other is UK, which is about to change their guidance.)

[hanniabu]

> I wrote that - thanks for sharing!

Question, did you happen to just stumble upon this thread? Or were you using some type of notification service and alerted about it?

[brongondwana]

There's two types of notification service (hi Jeremy, nice to see your work still getting lots of attention) - one is a technical thing, and the other is friends.

Way back a couple of jobs before I worked with Jeremy at Fastmail we used to talk about "slashdot distance", as in "I don't read Slashdot, I just read summaries". "I don't even read summaries, I just have friends tell me if there's anything interesting in the summaries"... etc.