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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Borzou Daragahi  🖊 🗒

      Misinformation alert. The outbreak is already dated to November, so October cases are not implausible *but* that paper has so many problems and so much hand-waving that it should not be cited, let alone made into news articles.https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1270250085084016641 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Borzou Daragahi  🖊 🗒Verified account @borzou
      Satellite imagery suggests spike in Wuhan hospital visits coupled with rise in Chinese-language Google searches describing Covid-19 symptoms — in October 2019, according to Harvard study https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite-data-suggests-coronavirus-hit-china-earlier-researchers/story?id=71123270 …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      I pointed out a few issues here. I don't mind the method (2003 SARS was identified partly due to online rumor tracking) but folks, hang on before making things into big news articles. Ask around. The paper is very short and will likely evolve.. a lot.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1270347472246919172 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Replying to @chris_bail
      This paper is not showing that at all, tbh. Diarrhea searches in August aren't proof for COVID. "(GI) symptoms are a unique feature of COVID19" is not accurate. Hospital parking lot increases do not indicate COVID. I read the paper and had to duck from all the hand-waving.
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bastian Purrer  🧢

      Oh, wow. If true, this is nuts. I mean, the preprint paper is citing "Global Times" to support their assertion the market may not be the source of the virus. Internet searches and satellite data is fine to use, but there is no "top story" here. *headdesk*https://twitter.com/bastianpurrer/status/1270396180296597504 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Bastian Purrer  🧢 @bastianpurrer
      Replying to @zeynep
      @derspiegel is running this as top story right now
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jun 2020

      We already have an earliest known case of mid-November. October cases are thus of course plausible. But there is no finding here. Nothing to report yet. *shouts into the void*

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jun 2020

      Look, reporting from preprints is fine, and there has been many good ones, but you really have to do the legwork and not rush, especially if the claim is very bold and consequential. Watch the caveats. Ask skeptical questions. Wait. Let papers evolve. *disappears into the void*

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lena (Mimi)  🏠

      This is not evidence at all! We have had antibody studies that show only a third of people who had genuine strong suspicion that they had COVID (their doctor thought so; they lived with COVID positive person) in *February* actually had COVID.https://twitter.com/athletespw/status/1270402000522489861 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Lena (Mimi)  🏠 @athletespw
      Replying to @zeynep
      As I said, many athletes who were at the Military Games in Wuhan at end of October had symptoms similar to Covid19-symptoms. Here is an Italian article from a known paper https://www.corriere.it/sport/20_maggio_07/coronavirus-wuhan-quei-mondiali-militari-atleti-tornati-cina-quelle-strane-febbri-novembre-8924b39a-9037-11ea-b981-878bbbd902eb.shtml … To say "there were no Covid19-cases before mid-November" seems at least bold.
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Please also check this thread on the alleged early COVID wave. The curve fitting is reliant on maybe two days? Spike in parking in one hospital for two days? Could be anything. (I hope reviewers notice this). Meanwhile, very very thin story has gone viral. https://twitter.com/crushspread/status/1270570534581878784 …

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

      Also note that if there was indeed a major wave of COVID in China in August 2019 (thin thin claim based just on searches for "diarrhea" but not anything respiratory but okay), there would be a lot of *export* of the disease, which we would be able to confirm via antibody testing.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Will Ma

      It's getting even shakier. Honestly, with all due respect to the authors (we're human, mistakes happen to everyone) and with my best and most generous interpretation of everything they claim, there was already nothing there in this paper without all this.https://twitter.com/WillMaStat/status/1270850256121540608 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Will Ma @WillMaStat
      I followed up with the Harvard team and found out “腹泻的症状” ("symptoms of diarrhea") was used, rather than “腹泻”("Diarrhea"), as the keyword in their search data analysis. Interestingly enough, the search volume of “腹泻” is actually decreasing during July-Dec 2019. pic.twitter.com/9jw6AcKisY
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

      So, no "dramatic spike" in parking lots in October (seems just two days); hospital may have had construction and has underground parking; "diarrhea" search isn't a good lone signal for COVID but many saying they didn't even get the term right in Chinese. *Nothing* is holding up.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Will Ma

      And it's just not plausible that there is any massive early spike to the degree there are pileups in hospitals (which the data do not show but even if it did) but no "shortness of breath" or any respiratory symptoms for COVID? Come on.https://twitter.com/WillMaStat/status/1270964472086179846 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Will Ma @WillMaStat
      @johnbrownstein needs to look at other symptoms of #COVID19 besides diarrhea, e.g., "short of breath”, “difficulty breathing" (“呼吸困难","气短"). The search volume of both terms are rather flat throughout 2019, which started to climb in late Jan 2020. pic.twitter.com/qM8gDvU1hs
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Zed Fang

          More questions. Also note that one parking lot (top right) is absolutely empty. If there were a few cars that would be more reasonable. Absolutely empty could be closed off for the day.https://twitter.com/fang__z/status/1270431757469392899 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Zed Fang @Fang__z
          Made a crappy infographic for people who don't want to play spot-the-difference. pic.twitter.com/cXIqeM0NJa
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Jun 2020

          Oh, my. Here we are. No amount of correction will undo this damage. In my view, even in the most generous reading of this draft, neither claim (searches—maybe, for "diarrhea"—or parking lot counts—which show no trend, just two outlier days) support any such finding, even weakly.pic.twitter.com/B4R89QWKnp

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jun 2020

          One article adding more experts questioning that "August COVID in China" study. It got widely reported, tweeted by the president but it's clear that it just doesn't hold up at all. But the correction is disappearing into the void.https://www.thedailybeast.com/experts-doubt-trumps-new-favorite-report-on-covid-19s-earlier-origins …

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