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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 21 May 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alexis C. Madrigal

      "'You’ve got to be kidding me,' Ashish Jha, the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told us when we described what the CDC was doing."...https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/1263329713688215552 …

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      Alexis C. MadrigalVerified account @alexismadrigal
      The CDC, the global gold standard for public health statistics for decades, is also mixing antibody and viral tests in its new COVID Data Tracker. It's one of those things that is unbelievable. And yet, here we are. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2020

      Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states [Vermont, Virginia until recently] are doing the same. "The intermingling of viral and antibody tests suggests that some of those gains might be illusory."

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2020

      One test (PCR) diagnoses acute infection: are you sick now? The other (antibody) detects past infection: have you ever been sick? If the CDC and some states combine them, we have no idea if the epidemic is growing now or we're looking at the past. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ …pic.twitter.com/FzJv8JAlkO

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2020

          What was once one of the premier public health organizations in the world is producing uninterpretable numbers. Painful. And this is why we need solid journalism. Journalists uncovered this. A public radio station in Miami. A newspaper in Richmond. My colleagues at The Atlantic.pic.twitter.com/uNFJqpkBnO

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        1. K Blank‏ @kjblank80 21 May 2020
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          The CDC death counts are also questionable if the follow the same procedures for the flu. Dr. Birx alluded to this. Many deaths were due to other causes, but gets attributed to COVID and the flu before. It's right to scrutinize this data.

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        1. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen 21 May 2020
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          They could also give negative on antibody if the stories of innate immunity due to exposure to past coronavirus via T-cells turn out to be true. We'll never be able to tell if those people are immune except on the basis that they never seem to get it.

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        2. Hassan khan‏ @hkhanirl 21 May 2020
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          Plus, it's very important to mention that many sero tests aren't FDA approved yet. So, you have no idea about the accuracy of the data either.

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        3. Diana Prince‏ @Diana_E_Prince 21 May 2020
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          💯The antibody tests are unregulated and unreliable. Just another lie that will result in thousands of more deaths that were preventable.

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        1. BDNf  👁️‍ 🗨️‏ @cynocephale 21 May 2020
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          In other words: one is a scan of your receipts from the grocery store of the last (2) months; the other is a snapshot of what is currently in your pantry. One tells us how many have been undernourished at some point in the past and the other how many are starving right now.

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