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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 11 Mar 2021

    Are we still this bad at this? The study looked at NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES not vaccine effectiveness—there's a relationship but it's not straightforward as those are not the whole immune system and just drops don't make vaccines "at least 10 times less effective against variant".pic.twitter.com/ZOHzokCaR0

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2021

        There, I fixed it for you, @BusinessInsider and @thehill.pic.twitter.com/ySHAtifqjf

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2021

        It's been a year. Nobody who is unable to read a lab paper about neutralizing antibody titers & not realize this doesn't *directly* correspond to a same level of drop vaccine effectiveness ("10 times less effective" "12.4 times less effective") should be writing about this.

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2021

        We've long known about the South African variant causing drops in neutralizing antibodies. Boosters are in the works, and given that the epidemic rose and fell very fast with those variants in South Africa even without vaccines is encouraging. Let's vaccinate widely and globally.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2021

        Also, the highly-transmissible UK variant isn't getting the same headlines because it doesn't cause drops in NAb titers against our vaccines, but it is! THAT THING REMAINS A HUGE THREAT and we need to vaccinate the world as fast as possible. Transmissibility is a huge danger.

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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2021

        The UK variant has done great damage, and will likely soon do real damage in places without widespread vaccination *right now*. The US may—just—escape the brunt because we do have robust vaccine supply... Immune escape is a real concern but exponentials are still terrible.

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      1. Avi Zenilman‏ @avizvizenilman 11 Mar 2021
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        these stories really need a sense of humoral

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      2. Ritchie Trilnack‏ @trilnack 11 Mar 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Headlines are the weak link of the news communication system of modern western civilization. We are failing as a society mainly through bad headlines, and, more importantly, through peoples' lazy reliance on headlines to do the work for them. A very problematic arrangement.

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      3. Will Lau‏ @WillWLau 11 Mar 2021
        Replying to @trilnack @zeynep

        It's not just the headline in this case though, unfortunately

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      2. Keith Ammann‏ @KeithAmmann 11 Mar 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Also, "n times less" is a nonsense phrase, mathematically.

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      3. Michele Rajput‏ @dsmyxe 11 Mar 2021
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        Yes! Endlessly infuriating.

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