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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 5 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Seth Thomas Scanlon

      I'm not recommending ordinary people read & try to make sense of all this: highly-specialized topics. I'm just posting this as example of why regular people should feel comfortable stop sharing threads about neutralizing antibodies etc. and concluding the pandemic will never end.https://twitter.com/ImmunoEditor/status/1357682891304615938 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Seth Thomas Scanlon @ImmunoEditor
      In @ScienceMagazine this week: @profshanecrotty, @SetteLab, @Dani6020 & colleagues (@ljiresearch @UCSDMedSchool) provide more evidence for the durability of post-infection #COVID19 immune responses! http://bit.ly/Sci_abf4063  pic.twitter.com/UREXhuAeso
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

      Real problems: how to vaccinate more people, globally, quickly; how to get through especially the next few months with more transmissible variants and seasonality still working against us. Not problems: this will never end. As of yet, there is no scientific reason to think that.

      6:02 AM - 5 Feb 2021
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

          I know, why should you trust me? I can't prove that to anyone either, but all I can say is: I've written plenty of grim warnings and articles when they were warranted (warning about the pandemic Jan/Feb 2020, warning about variants in December) analytically, I'm not an optimist.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

          I'm just observing that the doom part has gotten.. a bit out of hand. Yes, the next few months are really tough. Yes we will get hit with the variants (though vaccinations plus measures will blunt this; it's a race). But, honestly, I see no reason to think this will never end.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Yes. Non-specialists trying to interpret neutralizing antibody titer measurements etc. and concluding the pandemic will never end. Also media reporting such results in *headlines* "six-fold drop!" and needlessly panicking people. https://twitter.com/_opservator_/status/1357694236326572040 …

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

          I'm really, really not saying there's anything wrong with following the fascinating flow of papers, threads, information that's out there. Just don't talk yourself into long-term doom for no reason. Short-term, yeah tough. But no basis for the "no end" panic that's taking hold.

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB -  💉 💉

          I'm constantly hearing from people who are so despondent that "this will never end" that they are thinking of stopping all measures now ("might as well live, if there's no end"). We need to be MORE strict for a bit more exactly because THERE IS AND END.https://twitter.com/wanderer_jasnah/status/1357697251561381893 …

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          Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB -  💉 💉 @wanderer_jasnah
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          let me tell you, going from "everyone please listen, this is *SERIOUS*, please do something FAST i'm begging you" to "everyone please listen, there's a light at the end of this godforsaken tunnel, please cool it w/the paranoia" has been the most jarring aspect of the past year.
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        2. Matt Millman‏ @millkman 5 Feb 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Do you rec those that have been infected get vaccinated?

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        3. nursejudith‏ @bigandtinygirl 5 Feb 2021
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          @milkman that is what is being done in my city - yes. People who have been infected (over 3 mo ago) are getting vaccinated.

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        1. OC‏ @MDCaspi 5 Feb 2021
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          OC Retweeted OC

          Agree, we should focus now on hope. Not on "this will never end". Hope=Vaccines but... we should distribute them quickly and *homogeneously*.https://twitter.com/MDCaspi/status/1357642434193276931?s=20 …

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          Israel's rapid vaccination of at-risk pop. (60+) As of Feb. 2, 3.2M people got the 1st dose, >80% of (60+). The effect on the # of severe patients was delayed. Reasons - B.1.1.7 and lower vaccination rates in municipalities with a high burden of active cases. *Israel's MOH data. pic.twitter.com/xDRcRssdhf
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        1. Tim Tesch‏ @TNTesch 5 Feb 2021
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          Thanks for all the great info over the last months. V supply is the core issue & wish US approval could rely more on those of other countries AND their experience. Largest trials ever! (Admit finding the 484->484K story fascinating). U c/b a V nerd if this looks like a virus:pic.twitter.com/EHP9Er0ezG

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