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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 20 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Keith Klugman

      Keith Klugman weighs in. (Dr. Klugman is the "past president of the International Society of Infectious Diseases and a past chair of the International Board of the American Society for Microbiology" among other positions/honors, now at Gates Foundation).https://twitter.com/findingpneumo/status/1339556859473227778 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Keith Klugman @findingpneumo
      First doses of Pfizer/Moderna vaccines are 90%+ effective after 14 days. Most high risk lives will be saved by giving all these limited early supplies of vaccine as first doses - second doses can be given later if first dose effectiveness wanes or when supply improves
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Dec 2020

      Too often what feels like "expert/science consensus"ish is actually a few Twitter people with lots of followers. (NOT ME lol!) when, in reality, there is a real debate within the scientific community—but then media leans on the high-profile Twitter experts and make it worse.

      8 replies 57 retweets 444 likes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Keith Klugman

      Also, journalists, it's extra effort but please seek people like Dr. Klugman—leading the field, lifetime in public health & vaccines—for expert commentary on complex matters. Twitter has its uses but it favors talent for snark and subtweets over substance.https://twitter.com/findingpneumo/status/1339556859473227778 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Keith Klugman @findingpneumo
      First doses of Pfizer/Moderna vaccines are 90%+ effective after 14 days. Most high risk lives will be saved by giving all these limited early supplies of vaccine as first doses - second doses can be given later if first dose effectiveness wanes or when supply improves
      3 replies 27 retweets 284 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Dec 2020

      Not saying everyone on Twitter is like that (of course not) or that journalists should go find people who agree with a particular view. But very often what looks clear or binary to the Twitter-verse is not & that complexity is reflected in the field in way social media does not.

      3 replies 11 retweets 114 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Dec 2020

      Two more (pretty senior) scholars (one is a former associate director of NIH) are advocating for modifying vaccine roll-out—they suggest delaying second dose. Less Twitter dunking, more constructive effort to figure out how to test this would be excellent.https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90358 …

      2 replies 26 retweets 118 likes
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan

      Example of how polarization and Twitter dunking makes everything worse. She doesn't like Blair (fine) but she has no idea about the topic either. But it's fun to dunk on Blair! And why is Blair talking about this? He's a politician. That's what they do.https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1341724700301549569 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere FanVerified account @DawnHFoster
      Tony Blair has for no reason anyone can fathom, suggested giving people half the recommended vaccine dosage, and mercifully everyone’s agreed to ignore him pic.twitter.com/b8OxXHGZof
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Dec 2020

      One reaction I see is a lot of wagon-circling and how-dare-you indignation. I wouldn't even mind it for some topics if it had a chance of working! It's the 21st century! It has no chance of working! Have to be out there engaging the ideas—if they think it's good/bad/terrible+how.

      3 replies 4 retweets 71 likes
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bob Wachter

      Adding to the thread, thoughts from Bob Wachter, chair of the UCSF Dept of Medicine on dosing strategy. (By the way, @bob_wachter's chronicles and virtual "grand rounds" are an amazing, living history of the pandemic).https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1344667661246992385 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Bob WachterVerified account @Bob_Wachter
      Taken together, if we have vaccine doses to distribute in Jan-Apr, it seems increasingly evident that a strategy of getting as many people (particularly high-risk) their first shot ASAP will save far more lives than sticking with the two shot plan. (6/7)
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    9. Ewan Pearson‏Verified account @ewanpearson 31 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @Bob_Wachter

      UK government just decided to adopt this approach without any trial, cancelling appointments for second vaccinations due next week and angering many. I don't think - going by their record so far - being highly apprehensive / doubting govt motive is inappropriate here.

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    10. Ewan Pearson‏Verified account @ewanpearson 31 Dec 2020
      Replying to @ewanpearson @zeynep @Bob_Wachter

      Having a serial liar for a Prime Minister doesn't really foster trust and there are no senior scientists being put up to promote this shift in policy that I've heard. Also, isn't doing this without any trial highly unethical as well as upsetting to people expecting 2nd dose?

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Dec 2020
      Replying to @ewanpearson @Bob_Wachter

      I can't comment on your domestic politics, but I agree we should collect data & get public trust. If we had started our trials in November as soon as the signal from phase III trials emerged, we'd have more clarity by the time the schedule for boosters in ~February rolled around.

      8:24 AM - 31 Dec 2020
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        1. Ewan Pearson‏Verified account @ewanpearson 31 Dec 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @Bob_Wachter

          It would be great to have some more clarity / evidence here & we’re in such a crisis that I dearly hope that it’s the right course of action - but our govt botched test & trace then fiddled the numbers so my trust in their motivations / competence is at a low.

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