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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

    Wow. A nursing home in Baltimore, oldest African-American one, did not lose *a single person* to COVID because as soon as they heard Trump say cases would soon go to zero, they realized it was going to be a catastrophe, stopped visits and masked up. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0619-20200618-re2obahhbzbddojazrkf65gdoq-story.html …pic.twitter.com/toL1XYEN1Y

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ari Schulman

        For contrast, a staggering 6% of all nursing home residents in New York and 12% in New Jersey died of COVID.https://twitter.com/AriSchulman/status/1273414592404828161 …

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        Ari SchulmanVerified account @AriSchulman
        This is stunning. In New Jersey, 12 percent of nursing home residents died of Covid. https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it …
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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

        After they had to stop the visits to protect the residents, the nursing home director hired more staff to make sure the elderly residents had more activities within the nursing home so they wouldn't feel as isolated. They also arranged for more social-distancing within the home.pic.twitter.com/W2INKKHvQW

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

        And now they're allowing for distanced porch visits, the sanest way to make sure the elderly have human contact, something essential, during the pandemic. We would all be better off if Revered Derrick Dewitt ran the US pandemic response from day one.pic.twitter.com/xZkGiAU8N1

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

        To the tons of people in my mentions saying what about New York's failures? That's the *second* tweet in my thread above and something I highlight—like below. So many assume we can't see failures everywhere they occur because of partisanship. You're wrong.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1263889103810105350 …

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        zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
        For months, New York sent more than 4,300 recovering elderly COVID patients back to nursing homes because of a Coumo directive. I don't get how this isn't the biggest news. The core issues aren't the beaches, the parks or the unmasked joggers passing by. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ap-count-4300-virus-patients-ny-nursing-homes-70825470 …
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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

        Nursing home manager, Iraq vet, saw Seattle cases: started buying PPE, stopped visits. He learned of asymptomatic spread so he got staff to live at his home and in RVs next to the facility. He's losing "a couple hundred thousand dollars" but no infections. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/18/nursing-home-coronavirus-rvs …pic.twitter.com/rShCLaO2Gd

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      7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jun 2020

        About 40% of US COVID losses are in nursing homes and assisted living facilities—an undercount, too. The examples above show this wasn't inevitable. 40,000+ elderly people died, mostly alone and unable to breathe, because we didn't have our act together. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/government-counts-26-000-covid-19-deaths-nursing-homes-s-n1221496 …pic.twitter.com/Y4skmmqVzP

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      8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Jun 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Hong Kong Hermit

        Here’s another example. This UK care home, without guidance or support from the government decided to completely lock down, with reduced staff living in tents and RVs. Not a single infection.https://twitter.com/hongkonghermit/status/1264636505714126849 …

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        Hong Kong HermitVerified account @HongKongHermit
        This is the updated report, from today. Watch this video, and be ready to have a proper wholesome cry at some magnficent human beings showing how good our species can sometimes be. https://youtu.be/i_4fIcwKHj0 
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      2.  ✨Summer Daddy ✨‏ @Summer_Z98 19 Jun 2020
        Replying to @zeynep

        You know it’s crazy times when you wish the director of a nursing home can replace the current US president.

        6 replies 34 retweets 578 likes
      3. Kiyun Anon‏ @antifatwa 19 Jun 2020
        Replying to @Summer_Z98 @zeynep

        Someone working to provide care to some of the most vulnerable people in the soceity is infinitely more qualified to be the president than a show host and a shady businessman accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault and tax evasion.

        2 replies 21 retweets 528 likes
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