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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Feb 2021

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted Adrienne LaFrance

    From the last day of 2020. I got the usual push-back for calling the new variant a "ticking time bomb". Alarm isn't alarmism if it's warranted. Now it's more than a month later, and I'll repeat. We. Will. Get. Hit. With. This—moderated by our vaccination rates and our measures.https://twitter.com/AdrienneLaF/status/1358525588135424002 …

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    Adrienne LaFranceVerified account @AdrienneLaF
    The U.K. variant is now tearing across the U.S., doubling its prevalence among confirmed infections every 10 days. I highly recommend @zeynep on how to think about the dangers posed by variants, and the flaw in oversimplifying new strains as “less deadly”https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/ …
    1:33 PM - 7 Feb 2021
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    • Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own Eric Carroll @earthprairie #ZeroCovid #COVIDisAirborne David Baker BinkysBrain Fernando Cortés LBC TimesNow Ⓐchard of St. Victor, SSMK
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Feb 2021

        When a pathogen changes & when we're facing an exponential threat, first, the response has to be to adjust ourselves defensively, despite the uncertainty and then, if warranted, adjust it again as information comes out. "We don't know yet" is a cause for *more* action, not same.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Feb 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Covid One Year Ago

        Oh look, what the county that had open schools, indoor dining and concerts for all of last year was doing one year ago today. (Exponentials: one gets ahead of them very quickly or one gets steamrolled. Vaccination: exponentials that work in our favor).https://twitter.com/YearCovid/status/1358435348594892800 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Covid One Year Ago @YearCovid
        7 Feb 2020 Taiwan mobilises the military to assist with mask production, aiming to increase supply from 4 to 10 million masks per day. Until production increases, each citizen will receive a ration of two masks per week https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3869320  pic.twitter.com/GhM6BHViLb
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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Feb 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Harry Campbell  🇺🇸

        Be more strict for the time being. Better masks if you have to be indoors with others. I've cut down on optional things I was cautiously doing; will re-evaluate in March. (I do volunteer at a vaccination clinic—wearing an N95—but that's a *worth it* risk.)https://twitter.com/TheRideshareGuy/status/1358547944417333248 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Harry Campbell  🇺🇸Verified account @TheRideshareGuy
        Replying to @zeynep
        So what can one do on an individual level about the new UK strain?
        9 replies 66 retweets 305 likes
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      2. The Dude‏ @the__dude98 7 Feb 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        It's going to be far worse in the EU

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      3. The Dude‏ @the__dude98 7 Feb 2021
        Replying to @the__dude98 @zeynep

        That's why they're having a meltdown over the slow vaccination pace

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. BundlebranchblockMD 👁️ 👁️‏ @Bleedinheart2MD 7 Feb 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Moderated a LOT by vaccines. It won't look like the UK at all.

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      3. aeon‏ @AeonCoin 7 Feb 2021
        Replying to @Bleedinheart2MD @zeynep

        If the transmission is 40% higher you need 30% of the population vaccinate to offset. That probably won't happen in time.

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      2. Got Ist Tot‏ @MartianPontiac 8 Feb 2021
        Replying to @richardpointer @zeynep

        It doesn’t always help though. Many of us can’t be any safer than we already are. This shit just increases paranoia and anxiety which are eventually quite detrimental to emotional AND physical well being.

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      2. Arieh Kovler‏Verified account @ariehkovler 7 Feb 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        This is exactly what happened here in Israel. The B.1.1.7 variant spread so fast that it became 90% of cases outside of Arab towns, overwhelmed the lockdown and caused cases to start rising again. Even the very fast vaccine programme isn't fast enough to stem it much (yet).

        3 replies 28 retweets 74 likes
      3. Steven J. Frisch‏ @stevenjfrisch 7 Feb 2021
        Replying to @ariehkovler @zeynep

        Cases started rising only in the unvaccinated, I believe.

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