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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Feb 2020

      Millions in China are suffering through severe lockdowns and untold number of medical workers are putting their lives on the line and thus gifting us with time to prepare for a pandemic that will greatly stress our infrastructure. Our lackadaisical approach is unconscionable.🤬🤬

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Feb 2020

      I don't think people understand the issue. There are no fixed numbers. There is no single R0 (infectiousness), no single CFR (case fatality rate), no single percent infected. It's all a Schrödinger's pandemic: to be settled when COVID-19 hits our infrastructure and our response.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Feb 2020

          I'm a third-worlder by birth and childhood, and it is painful to see that more and more people in such wealthy countries may well be about to discover what it means to hit even a hiccup with terrible infrastructure. My goodness, this is stuff we should be ready for anyway.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Feb 2020

          "We get the flu every year." You know what will happen if we hit COVID-19 unprepared? More people will die of... the flu. And everything else. On top of COVID-19. We have only so many hospital beds, ventilators, ICUs. To be ready means we are ready to flatten the curve—buy time.

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        1. Santos Kri  🔶 🍀 💧‏ @SantosKrikorian 25 Feb 2020
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          I don't catch the relativization.....

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        2. Khavren‏ @Khavren 25 Feb 2020
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          What infrastructure? Trump fired the pandemic folks, cut the CDC budget and the deputy sec of DHS is trying to use John Hopkins to prepare

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        3. God Bless America‏ @lindabphillips 16 Mar 2020
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          MSM lies

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        2. stoneface‏ @stonelake 16 Mar 2020
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          Wonder what R0 is like at Senor Frogs on Spring Break...

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        1. Christoph Leibing‏ @cleibing 17 Mar 2020
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          I think there is a single R0 per definition,or? What is influenced by behavior etc is Re (effective).

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