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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 1 Jul 2020

      Good morning in sad, jealous tweets. All schools in Taiwan have been open since February. They did not listen to China or WHO in January and immediately masked up and shut down travel. They also traced the hell out of their outbreaks. They were practically done by February.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jul 2020

      The idea that this was somehow a mutantninjasuper virus against which we are powerless is nonsense. But yes, this is like a fire: the more area it consumes, the harder it is to put it out. Yes, it is not as big a priority as schools, but restaurants in Taiwan are open, too.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jul 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alan Feldstein

      They aren't letting that happen. Restricted travel. Also *for real* fourteen day quarantine even with a negative COVID test to those allowed to enter. No country that has succeeded is likely to let failures of countries like ours ruin their own success.https://twitter.com/AlanFeldstein/status/1278310456214671361 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Alan Feldstein @AlanFeldstein
      Replying to @zeynep
      What happens when large numbers of infected people resume travel to Taiwan?
      8 replies 249 retweets 2,239 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jul 2020

      Here's the truth for the US. Universal masking with targeted closures will help but the outbreak is huge now. Maybe we get *really* lucky with this virus. (T-cell cross-reactivity? An antiviral combo?) I hope so but can't count on it. Otherwise, it's another year of where we are.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jul 2020

      Anyway, for people in the United States the sad, terrible reality is that barring something about the virus characteristics rescuing us despite ourselves (possible but absolutely not what we should bank on), make your plans for another year of this—till summer of 2021. I'm sorry.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jul 2020

      2020 may well be the end of the American century.

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    7. John Stone  🌵‏ @jstonedotorg 1 Jul 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      John Stone  🌵 Retweeted John Stone  🌵

      I'm hoping pooled testing through businesses and schools saves us.https://mobile.twitter.com/jstonedotorg/status/1276568023566934016 …

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      John Stone  🌵 @jstonedotorg
      Best news I've heard this week. Right now the US is testing 500k to 600k people a day for covid. By the fall the number of tests should rise to around 1.6M a day, and they will be able to pool 5 or 10 people to one test. This means testing should rise to 8M-16M a day. pic.twitter.com/ExYLnH4iNa
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    8. Patrick Bourke  🍁‏ @patrickbourke 1 Jul 2020
      Replying to @jstonedotorg @zeynep

      the success of pooled testing is predicated on contact tracing and being able to operationally manage the transition of pool with positive result -> individual tests. I am not convinced that the majority of state DOH and health systems can operate at this level today.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Jul 2020
      Replying to @patrickbourke @jstonedotorg

      I think our positivity rate is too high for pooled testing as of now.

      9:59 AM - 1 Jul 2020
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        2. John Stone  🌵‏ @jstonedotorg 1 Jul 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @patrickbourke

          The positivity rate should drop dramatically as more people are tested who are asymptomatic. The pools would be happening at schools, jobs, airplanes, and hotels. Of course pool size would need to be scaled with expected positivity rate.

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        3. John Stone  🌵‏ @jstonedotorg 1 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jstonedotorg @zeynep @patrickbourke

          Maybe as an example of pool size scaling. Now we have 50k cases a day positive (rounding up) and 500k tests a day (rounding down). If you used 10 to 1, then worst case it would take 500k tests to go back and individually test positive groups.

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