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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Josh Michaud

      So the White House is not doing backward contact tracing—as they should—to figure out how the cluster started? They’ll miss cases.https://twitter.com/joshmich/status/1313297693054316546 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Josh MichaudVerified account @joshmich
      Here we can see the difference between retrospective and prospective contact tracing. The WH is saying it is doing prospective tracing, but doesn't need to to retrospective tracing. https://twitter.com/BMorgenstern45/status/1313268015388127232 …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Katherine Faulders

      So is this part of the White House cluster? Probably so, right?https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1313522445731745792 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Katherine FauldersVerified account @KFaulders
      Wow — A U.S. official confirms that all the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are quarantining at home after a positive COVID test for Admiral Ray, the Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard, per @LMartinezABC.
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jennifer Jacobs

      And more...https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1313507289161236480 …

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      Jennifer JacobsVerified account @JenniferJJacobs
      NEWS: One of the president's military aides, Coast Guard aide Jayna McCarron, has coronavirus, sources tell me. And so does one of the president's valets, who is also active duty military, and traveled with the president last week.
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Oct 2020

      🙄Anyone proposing Sweden as a contrarian example has *no idea* what they're talking about. Sweden had a more strict & early indoor gathering limit than most of Europe, never lifted it when others did & everyone 16+ is in virtual school. Japan! Try Japan! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …pic.twitter.com/rguHxKsJXo

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Oct 2020

      March: Bartender infected as Austrian ski resort. Medical authorities: "A transmission of the virus onto the guests of the bar is, from a medical point of view, rather unlikely." Reality:~6000 infections in 45 countries. (March in Japan: hunting clusters.)https://www.france24.com/en/20201009-documents-suggest-virus-was-downplayed-at-austria-resort …

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Oct 2020

      Canada allows indoor spin class with lower capacity, six-foot radius around bikes and sanitation. So panting crowd indoors but, hey, on clean bikes! Go ahead, require throwing salt over one's shoulder and hang a🧿. Index patient had no symptoms: 51 cases. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/10/13/patient-zero-displayed-no-symptoms-hamiltons-spinco-superspreader-outbreak-reaches-51-cases.html …pic.twitter.com/FN0PItiKzk

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ben Dube  🚲 🧦 🚰  🚲

      Ah, even better. You don't have to wear your mask in gyms in Canada when it *actually* counts the most. Brilliant. Look, folks, I'll say it straight out. United States and most of Europe have lost sight of the science of this pandemic. Inexcusable.https://twitter.com/benjamintdube/status/1316027523432542208 …

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      Ben Dube  🚲 🧦 🚰  🚲 @benjamintdube
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      Note that masks were not required *while panting* "Masks are required in fitness centres — except while working out." https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2020/10/08/eleven-cases-of-covid-19-linked-to-outbreak-at-hamilton-spin-studio.html … pic.twitter.com/16JbKPnRnE
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Asit K Mishra  😷 🪟

      Yep. I have a CO2/VOC monitor I've been using to see how things are. Places are *drowning* in bleach etc. The people doing the cleaning—low-paid women—are breathing in enormous amounts of harmful stuff unnecessarily, and then we are (I measure it).https://twitter.com/akm5376/status/1316027790160928771 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Asit K Mishra  😷 🪟 @akm5376
      Replying to @zeynep
      And the entire article does not mention ventilation. And they are huffing in VOCs from the cleaning agents. Even without a pandemic that is not healthy.
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bora

      Movie theaters (silent patrons wearing masks) are almost certainly much safer than spin classes indoors with unmasked panting exercisers, even with the "sanitation" and "reduced capacity" and "six feet between bikes" blah blah nonsense.https://twitter.com/BAmontanada/status/1316029238001037315 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Bora @BAmontanada
      Replying to @zeynep
      When spin studios opened I was shocked. Yet they are closing many places with no real evidence of spread (movie theatres). Please note that gov of Canada website has yet to update its covid guidelines, still stating it's mainly spread via surfaces! Facepalm
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Oct 2020

      March, 2020: "Let's wear masks for a respiratory disease". "NOOO, they are harmful." Evidence? *crickets* October, 2020: "Let's drown everything in bleach and disinfectants!" Wait, there's tons of evidence this isn't that safe or necessary. *crickets* https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2753247 …pic.twitter.com/7imhfQSyI7

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2020

      "If they were following guidelines, how did the outbreak happen?" "This remains unclear." Maybe something wrong with guidelines that allow "distanced" people panting indoors on very very very clean bikes? Seems mostly young people but won't always be. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/10/15/how-were-so-many-infected-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hamiltons-spinco-outbreak.html …pic.twitter.com/5qBwVxEm8k

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        1. Bill Co‏ @SpitItOutSpicer 15 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          Do you think over dispersion is due to widespread mask use with pockets of non-maskers rather than anything specific to covid? Or does not spreading to own household suggest otherwise?

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        1. inan temelkuran‏ @inantemelkuran 15 Oct 2020
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          I think the photograph used under the headline by itself explains sufficiently.

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        1. Kenny Smith‏ @KennyoftheSmith 15 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          I agree with you, and the reason - at least in the United States - is mostly because of partisanship. Masks, social distancing, and other such things have become signs of identity and not public health measures.

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        1. Chuck Smith‏ @chucksmithRTW 15 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          Last night I walked past a group cycling class at my San Diego apartment building (glass walls, ground floor fitness room, visible to all): no masks seen & some inadequate distancing.

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        1. Roger Yang‏ @roger_yang_to 15 Oct 2020
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        1. Joss Delage‏ @JDelage 15 Oct 2020
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          What do you think of france's new curfew measures? Useful or not?

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        1. Starving Engineer‏ @edw_tweet 15 Oct 2020
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          Meanwhile, in Switzerland, they bring 600 people in for a Yodel comedy concert...https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/autres-cantons/11680346-lhopital-de-schwyz-sature-apres-un-concert-de-yodel-superpropagateur.html …

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        1. Blue State Life  🔥‏ @BlueState4Life 17 Oct 2020
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          @zeynep could you write about COVID and Sweden? There is so much misinformation out there, and it's really hard to understand what is going on. You're super smart and informed, could you shed some light?

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