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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Oct 2020

    I'm launching a newsletter, called . I want to try to create a space for thinking deeply about complex, thorny but important puzzles, along with a community. Something between public writing and social media: some of both but neither. Sign up here:

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  2. 15 hours ago

    This can’t be a debate. There’s no on the other hand here. Ethically *and* pragmatically, this is as clear cut as it gets. Seems somebody’s arguing this will encourage more immigration. That’s yet another example of distorted, convoluted thinking that made them hold back tests.

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    Biden administration again debating whether to provide COVID vaccines for asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants discusses
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  3. Jan 21

    Yes! The immune system training from the vaccine is natural, without the risks of the infection. Without it, the immune system ends up having to fight without prior practice. Usually it’s fine. Sometimes, you get knocked out! Why give the virus an upper hand? No virtue to that.

    A lot of vaccine hesitancy comes from Naturalness Bias, believing things are safer when they come from nature than when they're artificial. But like so many simplifications it's not true - some natural things are much safer and some are much more dangerous. Eg. An apple is ...
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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    Should be obvious, but people in rich nations are NOT getting this simple fact: "It’s impossible for a single country to end the pandemic alone"

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  5. Jan 20

    Sad. Lots of people have made too much hay out of the fact that natural immunity *does* confer protection, BUT IN THE RISKIEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Contrarianism isn’t critical thinking. There is no need to engage in a fair fight with the virus. It’s not a moral agent.

    “The son of the Czech folk singer Hana Horka, who deliberately exposed herself to the coronavirus, said her death should serve as a warning to others who remain unvaccinated. Horka believed naturally acquired immunity would allow a return to normalcy.”
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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 20
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    And it’s remained that way in NYC for vaccinated people. This is updated as of 1/8 so it def includes the Omicron variant

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    Indeed this is a lie. People need to push back on this hard. Vaccination reduces risk of infection. There is more than Omicron out there. Infection VE in the real world is clear. Look at Omicron-hit NYC through 12/25, 4X reduced risk:

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    “Zeynep’s Law” (Benefits of 1st order affect are almost never eliminated by some possible 2nd order effect you’ve dreamed up) is on my mind this week. Best school system leaders keeping plans simple, clear, fact-based. Don’t be too clever by half. Vax, mask, ventilate.

    Great conversation between and throughout, and I particularly like "Zeynep's Law"
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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    Personally, I’ve decided to live by ’s maxim: Don’t predict, prepare. (Which is different, as those who heard the pod know, from “Zeynep’s Law”!)

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    Jan 19

    Before the pandemic, I could never have imagined that one day I would be engrossed by a conversation about subjects like ventilation and air flow. This interview was riveting and it answered a lot of my questions about the current state of things.

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    If you work for a school and are concerned about how the technology you’re using affects the students under your care, we want to hear from you. If you work for an ed tech company and have behind-the-scenes insight, please reach out.

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    Jan 19
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    Jan 19

    "The entire clause that suggested that the WHO should have speedy access to disease outbreak sites has been removed – at the insistence of China" In other words, let's repeat the devastating mistakes made this time round when the next pandemic occurs.

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    Jan 19

    Great conversation between and throughout, and I particularly like "Zeynep's Law"

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  15. Jan 19

    Yes! My apologies. The data is even stronger than what I said in the original tweet. Vaccines were shown to be extraordinarily protective against multisystem inflammatory syndrome for COVID—not a single fully-vaccinated case in the dataset.

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  16. Jan 19

    Upon request, all in one tweet: if you want to be informed about the science of viruses & immunology, and avoid misinfo and word salad, some excellent accounts: , & , & .

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    In this podcast with - she provides a great overview of various failures on Covid and how we can prepare for the pandemic’s next phase.

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  18. Jan 18

    “The absence of MIS-C cases in fully vaccinated children prevented calculation of an HR for this group.” (HZ: hazard ratio). Given onset time, researcher think the few MIS-C kids with a single dose were infected right before or around getting vaccinated—before immune response.

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  19. Jan 18

    Study from France: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children by COVID-19 Vaccination Status. Their tables have no line for fully-vaccinated children in their. Why? Because there wasn’t a single one among the 33 MIS-C cases in that hospital.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    Zeynep Tufekci on the pandemic's lessons, and what we haven't learned. Podcast with

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    Here's on: -Ventilation -Closing schools -Why South Korea has so outperformed the US -What the CDC and FDA did wrong -Political dysfunction as an opportunity for the virus -Expert communication failures And more. A must-listen.

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