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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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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Jan 2021

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

    It's the first year anniversary of this thread—responding to the first papers coming out of Wuhan. Talks about need for millions of tests (due to mild clinical symptoms), the threat to the elderly & high-risk, the danger of mutations and importance global equity. We were warned.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1222652819179634688 …

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    zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
    Significant #nCoV2019 paper *just* out at @NEJM. Bad news, which we kinda knew, is there is sustained human-to-human transmission. Goodish news: R0 estimate is 2.2, lower than SARS. But won't be easier to contain because 2020 is more connected than 2003. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316 …
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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Jan 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

        The most frustrating aspect of past year has been how hard scientists from China tried to warn us—once their government stopped silencing them. They published so much, so fast after Jan 20th, with almost everything we needed to know to get ready.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1222662053329924098 …

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        zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
        So far, #nCoV2019 has some features more favorable than SARS (no super-spreaders identified yet etc.) BUT @NEJM paper says some have atypical presentation: gastro symptoms or mild clinical presentation. (SARS came with high fever). Translation: we need maybe millions of tests.😬
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      2. Priyamvada Natarajan‏ @SheerPriya 29 Jan 2021
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        I remember this tweet - made me immediately realize that it ain't the flu -- thanks for this and all the work you do Z.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jan 2021
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        You're very welcome. I'm glad my work has been useful to you.

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      1. nptacek.eth ᵍᵐ ( 😈, 😇)( 🥖, 🥖)‏ @nptacek 29 Jan 2021
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        Thank you for your early efforts to spread the word. Some of us were listening, and paying attention, even if the current state of the world doesn’t seem to much reflect that these days.

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      2. Ethan O'Connor‏ @ethanoconnor 29 Jan 2021
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        Ethan O'Connor Retweeted Ethan O'Connor

        Have you watched this press conference by the PRC National Health Commission? Extraordinary, very explicit warning to the world on Jan 25th and I never saw coverage of it:https://twitter.com/ethanoconnor/status/1221639832113278976?s=21 …

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        Live from PRC National Health Commission: “I really hope our journalists can get clear and accurate messages to the public to every corner of the world -so that people can understand prevention and control measures of this epidemic” 😷 https://youtu.be/w6zfT9rPEZU  #2019nCoV pic.twitter.com/BIGCkLapXl
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      3. Ethan O'Connor‏ @ethanoconnor 29 Jan 2021
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        From the same press conference: “The control and prevention of the new coronavirus is currently the most important task for the country.”

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      1. Jeff xx‏ @jeffzuk 29 Jan 2021
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        Wish I had been following you then! 🙏

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      1. Mona Hamdy‏ @monamhamdy 29 Jan 2021
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        Your words are part of what spurred me and my colleague @Adham_Sameer_B to start HACR. "With an urgent enormous effort, this could be contained. There is no way to get through this without providing resources for the whole world. It's 2020. One planet."

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      2. Kashif Pirzada, MD‏ @KashPrime 29 Jan 2021
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        I remember my heart sinking when human to human transmission was confirmed outside of China, meaning a global pandemic was inevitable. I wish our leaders listened to you and others and prepared properly! Even to this day the right lessons aren’t being learned.

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      3. Proud European from Austria 🇪🇺 🇦🇹  🌏‏ @e2dot7182818284 30 Jan 2021
        Replying to @KashPrime @zeynep

        I remember cases in Italy. Then the first detection in Vienna: A guy who has been in Hospital for weeks. That's when I knew: It is already here & circulating.

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