Before 2020, Twitter’s #pandemic preparedness community was small enough that I knew most folks (socially & professionally) by first name. #COVID19 has brought many fresh faces into this space (for better or for worse), but I wonder: who’ll still be around after the dust settles?
New talent is essential to any discipline, including #pandemic preparedness. But as an epidemiologist who also studies metascience (the science of science), I think this past year’s influx is at least partly due to opportunism. Let’s keep this in mind when vetting our sources.
AMENDMENT: I’m going to quote tweet this here because folks in my replies seem to think I’m excluding engineers from the broad discipline that is pandemic preparedness.

...I’m an engineer too, y’all. A quick Google search would’ve probably made my background abundantly clear. 🤓 https://twitter.com/maiamajumder/status/1343995451717148676
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