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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 1 Apr 2020

      Yesterday, I commented on something tech, and someone was like, what do you have to do with tech? Lol! I've been pandemic writing for months. He had no idea I do tech. I didn't want to write "flatten the curve" or "we need masks" pieces. But people who should and could weren't.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2020

      Forget reflection, I got weird pushback. @NateSilver538 was so mad about me writing about the complacent/lagging media message that he caricatured my position beyond recognition and told me to "sit this one out". Yet, I'll say it again: there should be a reckoning & hasn't been.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2020

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      Yes. For example, we are finally seeing more coverage of asymptomatic transmission, in context of finally admitting the argument for masks. We had many many peer-reviewed papers on asymptomatic and non-feverish, atypical clinical presentation since Jan 29. https://twitter.com/hhavrilesky/status/1245362927630090242 …

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Cliff Featherstone

      More countries are switching to masks. Yeay! That's the good. If media had earlier dug into the science of masks and the experience of Asian countries that had been successful in containing this epidemic, we could have been here weeks ago. That's the bad.https://twitter.com/seaef/status/1245444646664355843 …

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      Cliff Featherstone @seaef
      South African health minister (now) unambiguous. #Masks4All #COVID19 cc @zeynep https://twitter.com/DrZweliMkhize/status/1245014440992538625 …
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted COVID Perspective

      This is great! California! By the way, would love for CA issue guidelines for correct use and sanitization. It's good to say masks *in addition to* other measures. But I have yet to see a single convincing study of "incorrect" use being worse than no mask.https://twitter.com/covidperspectiv/status/1245438129974083584 …

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      COVID Perspective @covidperspectiv
      California will issue new guidance today around the use of face masks / coverings in public, making it we believe the first state to do so. The state is stressing the correct use of masks and... it will not be a replacement for physical distancing; "additive" to other guidance.
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2020

      My prediction is that, until vaccines, we will go through waves where we necessarily relax social isolation but masks will help a lot during those intermittent periods. How much is an empirical question but Japan—screwing up everything else but masks—suggests it is a great deal.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2020

      Center for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford concludes that surgical masks are *as effective* as respirators for preventing infection in viral outbreaks. Fits Hong Kong's hospital practice. Asia was ahead on the science of this. Our experts were lagging. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-efficacy-of-standard-face-masks-compared-to-respirator-masks-in-preventing-covid-type-respiratory-illnesses-in-primary-care-staff/ …pic.twitter.com/DodJIwQWza

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2020

      Your daily irresponsible media failure: clickbait headline from @washingtonpost claiming "masks were useless" in the 1918 flu epidemic based on no research or evidence but one historian saying so in a throwaway manner in a book. Shame on you, @elizamcgraw. Lives are at stake.pic.twitter.com/v4bi8QORUW

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    9. future Dr. Cori Faklaris‏Verified account @heycori 2 Apr 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @washingtonpost @elizamcgraw

      This is bad sourcing maybe, but every documentary or history article I've read points out that no one realized how tiny virus particles were vs. the size of the gauze weave.

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    10. future Dr. Cori Faklaris‏Verified account @heycori 2 Apr 2020
      Replying to @heycori @zeynep and

      Covering your face certainly helps protect against droplet transmission as long as the droplets are a certain size. But let's not pretend either that they can be a proper replacement for social distancing.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2020
      Replying to @heycori @washingtonpost @elizamcgraw

      The article is pure unacceptable irresponsible clickbait. If it explained that the masks in 1918 were sometimes gauze but we don't even research how well gauze works but less so but if they were cotton they would have worked some AS SO MANY SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES SINCE SHOW, maybe.

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        2. future Dr. Cori Faklaris‏Verified account @heycori 2 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @washingtonpost @elizamcgraw

          Your anxieties are obvious in your frequent posts, Zeynep. I hope you stay well and that those you know are well.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2020
          Replying to @heycori @washingtonpost @elizamcgraw

          My "anxiety" is that irresponsible clickbait that's not science-based is going to do real harm, as it has done for many months. That article is equivalent to antivaxxer clickbait, and if that strikes you as "anxiety", rather than fact-based concern for its harm, what can I say?

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