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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Apr 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Isaacson

      I wrote this in late February—there still wasn't any helpful pieces on why we needed to flatten the curve! Late February! Why not? (Can't find traditional media pieces before mine who explained the term—the phrase isn't mine, of course, it's well-known).https://twitter.com/writesaacson/status/1245336551292375040 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      David Isaacson @writesaacson
      Okay, one more: it took a while for "flattening the curve" to enter the vernacular. @zeynep, in this @sciam blog on Feb 27, was one of the first to advise Americans to prepare to "stay home for two or three weeks, going out as little as possible." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ … /8
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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2020

      So, @elizamcgraw who normally writes about horses finds a casual sentence in a book that was more about how the 1918 epidemic spread and builds a piece around it titled masks "were useless" and it gets published on APRIL 2, 2020 in the middle of a pandemic in the @washingtonpost?

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2020

      Science and fact-based advocacy has won this argument about masks. Even the United States is likely to join. There is no evidence of harms (it was all speculation), and if something actually comes up, we can address it then because the benefits are clear. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/trump-coronavirus-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/ZdqbLfpikr

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Some of this increase may well be due to hospitals being overloaded. As I tried to explain in the piece on top of this thread, and throughout late Jan and February on social media and in articles, *this* is why “but the flu” comparisons were so misplaced. https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1245852365464449025 …

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        2. Brian Lui‏ @brianluidog 3 Apr 2020
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          Brian Lui Retweeted Ben Cowling

          Did you see this study about mask effectiveness that was just released?https://www.twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1246004236590010369 …

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          Ben CowlingVerified account @bencowling88
          (1/2) New study just out, face masks effective for source control against influenza and seasonal coronaviruses, even reducing virus detection in aerosols in patients with coronavirus infections. 5 years of hard work to generate the data https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2 …
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        3. Donnie Reilly‏ @DonnieReillyMMA 3 Apr 2020
          Replying to @brianluidog @zeynep

          Just saw this and thought of this thread right away. Hopefully the debate about mask wearing is drawing to a close (probably laughably optimistic to presume this, but still) and the phase of using them to slow the spread can begin. Too bad there's a lot of misinformation to undo

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        1. Alfie‏ @WndlB 3 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          That said, most ‘civilians’ should not use their $, their buying power, to scoop up available N95s.

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        1. Nicholas Weaver‏Verified account @ncweaver 3 Apr 2020
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          And the way to mitigate the supposed harm is with very simple messaging. ”My mask protects you, yours protects me. Don’t be an a**hole, wear a f****ng mask”

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        1. Alfie‏ @WndlB 3 Apr 2020
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          And I think, after hcw get all the N95s they need, the next tranche should go to people who have to work with lots of people, like physical therapists, dental offices, podiatrists, home health care workers and on

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        1. Riccardo  💉 💉 💉 Fanciola‏ @RFanciola 3 Apr 2020
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          Not yet in Switzerland, unfortunately

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