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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Michael Mina

      We're headed again to ~1,000 deaths per day and there's uncontrolled spread in multiple regions. Remember, the reduced death rate is because of therapeutics and better clinical management—available only if hospitalized. At this rate, we'll overrun hospital staff/capacity again.https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1320468341698580487 …

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      Michael MinaVerified account @michaelmina_lab
      This is incredibly sad and bad news for the US. In only 3 days, the 14-day average change in #COVID19 HOSPITALIZATIONS has skyrocketed from 7% to 15%! This means hospitalizations are not simply increasing but accelerating upwards at a fast pace. 1/ https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1319119516517924864 … pic.twitter.com/rCsNsE9Esa
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

      You can't magically expand hospital capacity because it's not just space: we're short of qualified medical staff and multiple regions with spikes limits transfers. Plus medical personnel have been at it since March. And many coronaviruses are seasonal—this may well be another.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

      The whole point of "flatten-the-curve" in March was to give us some breathing space while hospitals caught up with the cases, advanced their knowledge, and our governments put in the proper infrastructure. Not spend the rest of the year in magical-thinking land. What a tragedy.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

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      I don't understand what the UK is doing, either. You can only travel five miles (what happens to the virus in mile six? Is it afraid of distances?) but you CAN go into an indoor pub, but you must be seated (virus has vertigo?). What is the logic? https://twitter.com/mcelhearn/status/1320699357608448002 …

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

      When/if a place overruns hospital capacity, we see people delaying crucial treatment & preventive care, and being under-treated. And we're heading into flu season in the Northern hemisphere (Europe, too). I get that some fumbling is unavoidable early on but this is just failure.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted keep your electric eye on me

      Right, except this is about seven months behind the science—well, nine for Japan. Distance isn't protective enough indoors, especially in a poorly-ventilated pub. And the number of miles between houses or the pub is irrelevant to the virus.https://twitter.com/murakamiwood/status/1320701323982098432 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      keep your electric eye on me @murakamiwood
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      The logic behind the seating thing is that it's a proxy for physical distancing: more people can pack the bar if they are standing. Of course the seating rule doesn't guarantee enough distance and it's still inside... but that's the reasoning.
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Digital Naturalism

      Yep, we may teach germ theory in schools, but our hearts have not moved away from illness as sin. Governments seem to think if we can just punish and scold people and prevent fun, we can overcome this—instead of, you know, treating it like a pathogen.https://twitter.com/HikingHack/status/1320702245013495809 …

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      Digital Naturalism @HikingHack
      Replying to @zeynep
      In Panama we finally just ended Gender based segregation (which made no fucking sense), + they just opened the beaches yesterday, but now they are threatening to shut down again because "police saw several people drinking beer on the beach" Too many think covid caused by fun.
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted The COVID Tracking Project

      Second day with above thousand deaths reported for the United States. And this, with much better therapeutics and clinical practice. And we're headed into fall/winter and more indoors.https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1321946899918647297 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US. First, daily tests (1.3 million today). Second, a record number of cases (89k today). Third, currently hospitalized (46k today). Fourth, deaths (1,049 today).
      The COVID Tracking ProjectVerified account @COVID19Tracking
      Our daily update is published. States reported a record number of cases—88.5k—and 1.3 million tests. 46k people are hospitalized. The death toll was 1049. pic.twitter.com/CRsbyiBRSw
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        1. Connection Doctor, Empathy Guru‏ @PezeshkiCharles 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          No potential of reduction of deaths because of anything natural -- like pandemic running its course? Or remaining population acquiring immunity? Only doctors as heroes?

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        1. Jason Hochberg‏ @hochbergjason 29 Oct 2020
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          We have failed to come up with a strategy that people can live with in a long term way without destroying them mentally and economically. Failure all around. The children are hurting. Enough with the lockdowns.pic.twitter.com/nctyznmeLs

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        1. Yo Geissler‏ @yolkster 29 Oct 2020
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          it's just sad being like Belgium

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        2. Dan Kramer‏ @DKrame2 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          We’re really not that much better therapeutically @zeynep Steroids saving some lives, Remdesivir saving none, plasma likely also saving none. Difference is likely younger healthier patients and a much higher threshold to put patients on ventilators that can worsen lung injury

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        3. Dan Kramer‏ @DKrame2 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @DKrame2 @zeynep

          Since you’re very good at getting to what’s important that no one else is talking about...we need to be talking about the thousands of patients that are surviving hospitalizations as long as 2-3 months with many weeks on a ventilator. Too much focus on deaths alone

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        1. Aishwarya Nagarajan‏ @AishwaryaNaga 29 Oct 2020
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          Aishwarya Nagarajan Retweeted Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

          Square that with the death minimization that comes from this White House and my mind🤯https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1322020033581752320?s=20 …

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          Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPHVerified account @ashishkjha
          I realize I am naive. But I'm still shocked by the casualness by which our political and media leaders and their families dismiss the daily deaths of nearly a thousand Americans. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1322001939266109441 …
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        1. Dave  🌵 🚴‍♀️ 🎸‏ @HikerDave57 30 Oct 2020
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          Perhaps we made the wrong kind of ventilators. I think that classrooms could be retrofitted with energy-recovery ventilation at reasonable cost; hang a unit from the ceiling, run power and punch a few holes in the roof or walls and no more drowsy students and covid cloud be gone.

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        1. next_ghost  💉 💉 💉‏ @next_ghost_cz 30 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          Looking at what's happening in Europe despite actual efforts to contain the epidemic, this winter will be a disaster for the US...

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