The first crucial piece of information needed to contain this disease
has been the fact that it transmits from people without symptoms. In the
HBO documentary, the ship’s doctor reiterates that by February 9th, he
was sure that people without symptoms were infecting others. That fact
had already been reported in scientific papers, urgently proclaimed by
China’s minister of Health in January of 2020, apparent from multiple
epidemiological reports already in the record. But many experts in the
Western world found that difficult to believe (a topic I covered before
for this newsletter
<https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-anniversary>),
and we did not act upon this crucial piece of information until much
later in the pandemic (I wrote about transmission from people who were
not sick, and thus could not know they were infected, in March of 2020
inmy first
op-ed<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html>calling
for masks—it was so clear even then that I had no problem convincing
the fact-checkers at the/New York Times/).
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-gaslighting-of-science
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