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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepHaving so few known cases to many deaths is a terrible sign. If this were all there was, it would imply a case fatality ratio of 5%—higher than any place. In fact, we simply don't know where the cases are and how many and we are likely missing deaths, too. https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1236383802420686848 …Show this thread2 replies 3 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
March 1st, 2020.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234113514354225152 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepCan't imagine a worse way to handle the mask situation to simultaneously tell people they don't need masks *and* that health-care workers very much need masks so people shouldn't buy them. People aren't idiots. It's the age of mistrust already. Truth and transparency work better.Show this thread2 replies 27 retweets 138 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
This is why I don't really have an "anniversary" moment in March.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234858603917516800 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepThat’s right. Cat is out of the bag. We probably will not contain this in the US but we can mitigate. We have to do what we can to slow spread in order to preserve hospital capacity for the elderly and other vulnerable populations. But it’s here. https://twitter.com/drmattmccarthy/status/1234833720424697862 …Show this thread1 reply 5 retweets 69 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
It was not a good February/March here.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1236307682660843521 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepSimilar crisis to the terrible climate change coverage that helped get us where we are. Too many political reporters focus on reporting on the "sides" and narrative wars, rather than doing the actual job of analyzing what's actually going on. https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1236306434490609665 …1 reply 8 retweets 51 likesShow this thread -
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @mattdpearceIt is tough. Pandemics are systemic risks, and systemic risk is hard to communicate. That's also why I was so concerned by the early widespread "it's just like the flu, just a bit worse" messaging! We wasted months, and this is true across the political spectrum.1 reply 3 retweets 38 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
I spent so much of February early March trying to convince people around me to stop traveling, that canceling conferences/working from home was the right move and we needed to preserve hospital capacity for the incoming surge.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234552411416678402 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepI logged onto Facebook for the first time in days and groups are full of people asking about travel. It’s unconscionable that there is no public messaging. The World Health Organization recommends people over 60 or with other conditions to avoid crowds. https://twitter.com/drtedros/status/1233695157888987137 …Show this thread6 replies 9 retweets 112 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jenna Beacom, M.Ed
Wrong is fine. Happens. Assess and move on. What's telling is the "follow the science" heckling from people with "
#wearamask" bios because I say.. outdoors is safer. Same energy shouting at me because I said wear a mask in March, 2020. Science as talisman.https://twitter.com/jfbeacom/status/1368643595033513984 …zeynep tufekci added,
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted
That's the tragedy. There's no magic. The papers were there. We had the trifecta we needed know to help contain this in February of 2020—that it spread before symptoms emerged (unlike SARS) and that it was airborne and superspreading driven (like SARS). https://twitter.com/R0g3rM3xic0/status/1368646795329409028 …
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I'm not saying containing a pandemic would have been easy under any conditions. It's a huge challenge. The human cost was always going to be terrible. But we didn't do a good job helping ourselves minimize the loss and suffering even when we could have. That's an added tragedy.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted MrCheeze
Yeah, interesting question. On the one hand, I do support moving away from place-of-origin names. Sometimes it's fine, but often it's not. On the other hand, after making note of a key difference—presymptomatic transmission—SARS/MERS lessons were crucial.https://twitter.com/MrCheeze_/status/1368650726457638912 …
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In Canada as well health messaging about asymptomatic transmission and masks was too slow.
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I've been seeing people say "South African strain/variant" and "British strain/variant", and aside from a few hilarious quotes from British politicians objecting to the phrasing who also defended the term "China virus". I'm not sure what else we should call them?
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