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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      New paper: Hong Kong has not only contained COVID-19 for the moment, they've drastically reduced flu rates with social distancing, hygiene and near universal mask wearing. (Note: their government is unpopular and wasn't on board. The people acted anyway.) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.12.20034660v1 …pic.twitter.com/HZq3urSffP

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      Taiwan also quickly ramped up domestic production of masks and had a sensible plan to curb hoarding while ensuring access. Along with other sensible and non-draconian measures, they also contained COVID-19 for the moment despite a lot of travel with China. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/16/taiwan-china-fear-coronavirus-success/ …pic.twitter.com/vRq7FzaKH8

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted James Tang  🍎

      This is another important point. The "flatten-the-curve" urgency will eventually lead to "life must go on while we wait for vaccines/herd-immunity" and some form of mask-wearing may well be necessary for the transition.https://twitter.com/James69888/status/1240026391195729920 …

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      James Tang  🍎 @James69888
      Replying to @GiaTashaTomasso @thrasherxy @zeynep
      True, but this may go on for more than a year. We will need masks sooner or later.
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Mar 2020

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      Yep. That's why we can't just say "wear masks only if you're sick." Besides the fact that we're not testing enough so people can't know if they're sick, and that many can be infectious without any symptomps, it just creates a stigma around wearing a mask. https://twitter.com/NathanWomack_/status/1240071568421609473 …

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Scott Gottlieb, MD

      Please read this whole thread. We are eventually going to have to release people from lockdown, and universal mask wearing (not N95, but surgical masks) is one way to do it with less harm.https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1240240377052958720 …

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      Scott Gottlieb, MDVerified account @ScottGottliebMD
      THREAD: If the concern is that asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic younger Americans (millennials) are continuing to spread #Coronavirus because they don't heed warnings, you could require anyone between certain ages to wear a procedure mask when they go out. 1/n
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Mar 2020

      Folks don't @ me BUT do it: arrange locally to allow people to donate N95 masks to hospitals, maybe exchange with surgical masks. Hospitals are out of N95s; CDC is telling them to use surgical masks instead; people are sitting on N95s but hearing some willing to donate/exchange.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Mar 2020

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      Washington Post published another masks are superstition oped, so I’ll just put this here instead. https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1241598924516986881 …

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Mar 2020

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      The tragedy of this kind of top down misinformation is when we are done with the shortage how are they going to tell everybody to mask up? As they have to if we are to get through this? (Folks don’t hoard and donate N95s now).https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1241628429369270272 …

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      Washington Post still publishing headlines about how masks don't help, as if they were a bizarre superstition and not part of an effective intervention in the only countries that have gotten coronavirus under control. Source here is a psychology professor who writes about success pic.twitter.com/IMvBzOeCzk
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Mar 2020

      I'm going to say it outright. It's crystal clear that we'll have to adopt universal mask wearing as soon as we're over the shortage for healthcare workers. People still saying masks don't help, people won't know how to wear them, they can be harmful etc. are doing real harm.

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    10. Involution‏ @Involution88 28 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @iamjermainew

      Masks need to be cleaned regularly.(changed/sterilized/disinfected/washed/best available option.) (Mask wearing may be harmful. May act like a turbo charger for self reinfection, fueling and making the case more severe. Wearing a contaminated mask is a bit like eating boogers.)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Involution88 @iamjermainew

      This is false to irrelevant. Sorry check my threads. Studies are clear. No harm.

      6:40 AM - 28 Mar 2020
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        1. Involution‏ @Involution88 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @iamjermainew

          just tell/show people how to keep masks clean. that is all.

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        1. under maintenance‏ @lagginator 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @Involution88 @iamjermainew

          "Studies are clear" But you dont include a single one in your 20+ post thread on why everyone should wear masks? I'm not saying you're wrong but I do not believe the science on this issue is as clear-cut as you make it out to be.

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