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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 3 Apr 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Reuters

      Yes! Finally! One thing left: CDC should issue guidelines for best practices for home-made masks and their re-use and sanitization, and consider distributing/rationing a few surgical masks per person in hotspots with instructions for sanitization/reuse.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1246149401246076934 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      ReutersVerified account @Reuters
      Americans should cover faces and also keep distance: Dr. Fauci https://reut.rs/3aME8BC  pic.twitter.com/RZuxtbMeoW
      4 replies 38 retweets 94 likes
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeremy Howard

      The WHO is also, finally, finally, finally shifting. WHO, like the CDC, should quickly issue guidelines for best practices and sanitization. Time for them to step up and do what they are supposed to do, and can do.https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1246152974809915393 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward
      New @WHO guidance finally opens the door to #Masks4All. The science described here is incorrect still, but hopefully this step makes more jurisdictions feel able to introduce laws or guidance. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-opens-door-to-broader-use-of-masks-to-limit-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L2UK …
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      8 replies 41 retweets 116 likes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2020

      I can't wait to put an end to this thread.

      6 replies 4 retweets 94 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      The WHO finally "encourages" the public to wear masks. What a tragic waste of time and a needless squandering of medical authority amidst a pandemic. By March, there was enough evidence of presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission for me to write this. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927569065324547 …pic.twitter.com/2Me0Sj9OlD

      7 replies 68 retweets 189 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO)

      Also not only is there no evidence for this claim, there is emerging evidence for the opposite, and there is decades of evidence from other safety devices that this concern is not warranted, and if this was a thing, it would also apply to hand-washing. 🙄https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1268927995932225541 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      World Health Organization (WHO)Verified account @WHO
      "Masks can also create a false sense of security, leading people to neglect measures such as hand hygiene and physical distancing"-@DrTedros #COVID19
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      Here's a preprint of a paper (I'm a co-author) where we review the "false sense of security" claim and explain why it doesn't stand to evidence at all, and why, on the contrary, universal masks would be expected to lessen stigma and heighten solidarity. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2 …pic.twitter.com/2tDzvYGNVr

      7 replies 46 retweets 131 likes
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Jun 2020

      If some past person had told me I'd spend most of my energy in the first months of a pandemic arguing against CDC and WHO guidelines, that they would drag their feet despite mounting evidence, and that we'd rely on grassroots movements instead, I'd have dismissed them as nuts.

      15 replies 39 retweets 280 likes
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Jun 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Babak Javid

      I've been arguing for months that the most likely outcome of masks would be INCREASED adherence to distancing—because that's what social science suggests. That baseless "false sense of security" claim had no evidence for it. Now, experimental confirmation.https://twitter.com/Babak_Javid_Lab/status/1269312406120996864 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Babak Javid @javid_lab
      This is a cool study! Masks/goggles increase social/physical distancing by OTHERS to wearer: as measured by remote sensing technology! Doesn't tackle the straw man 'masks make wearers more reckless', but suggests even ineffective masks may protect by increasing physical distances https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1269308838110302209 …
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Jun 2020

      So Dr. Fauci has just said the public was told not to wear masks because they "were in very short supply." I just want to remind everyone what it was like in March—viral threads telling us not to wear masks. (Not picking on one person here—she was misled like everyone else).pic.twitter.com/SEYKHgmYtI

      58 replies 410 retweets 1,335 likes
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    10. Caleb Watney‏Verified account @calebwatney 15 Jun 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      It also ignores the fact that there were very easy steps we could have taken to increase the production of surgical masks that we *still* haven't taken https://www.mercatus.org/publications/covid-19-crisis-response/masks-all-using-purchase-guarantees-and-targeted-deregulation …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Jun 2020
      Replying to @calebwatney

      We should have done whatever we needed to do to address the shortage. It's a terrible failing.

      10:09 AM - 15 Jun 2020
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        2. ZengoMD ... Vaccines Crush Severe COVID‏ @ZengoMd 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @calebwatney

          Have yet to hear one hospital administrator get fired who chose their own bonus and balance sheet over pandemic preparedness when N95's were available for pennies back in 2018-2019. These highly paid glorified insurance clerks put their own staff in jeopardy for no good reason.

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        3. ZengoMD ... Vaccines Crush Severe COVID‏ @ZengoMd 15 Jun 2020
          Replying to @ZengoMd @zeynep @calebwatney

          If hospital admins actually had a medical degree, they might see the benefit of keeping a 2 year supply of PPE at all times and rotating it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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