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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 2 Apr 2021

      Just started watching the Diamond Princess documentary and I’m already pre-stressed. (It’s on HBO Max, called “The Last Cruise”.) Eeeek.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2021

      So far, it’s only February 9th, 2020 on the Diamond Princess and the ship’s doctor is certain about presymptomatic transmission (he says about a third seem to be) and it’s clearly spreading via airborne transmission on the ship. Maybe I should watch Jaws for some stress relief.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2021

      Okay they’re now putting all the passengers, including positive ones, in the same plane all the way back to the United States, and they’re most definitely not equipped against aerosol transmission. I think I’ll watch Godzilla, too, to relax.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2021

      Well I had read all the papers, but that was still difficult. 714 cases, 14 deaths. The documentary ends reminding us how long it took the CDC to recommend masks and test asymptomatic cases. (I got the impetus for some of my early writing from the Diamond Princess epidemiology).

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Apr 2021

      We got the most unfortunate “petri dish”—how can you have a “better” natural experiment than a cruise ship?—and we didn’t really learn from it immediately. Just painful to watch. Ugh.

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        1. Damian‏ @DamianTheAussie 2 Apr 2021
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          Another difficult one to watch here ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0993tmy/pandemic-2020 …pic.twitter.com/lHKGoSzt83

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        1. Caity‏ @CaityFC 2 Apr 2021
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          It was these news reports that led me to call my daughter overseas & tell her that best act as if 1) virus airborne & 2) asymptomatic transmission so be v careful! Thankful for all the journalists like yourself who gave detailed reports.

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        2. Ranganath Muniyappa‏ @dr_muniyappa 2 Apr 2021
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          SARS-CoV1 was airborne, we knew that for more than a decade. This was SARS-CoV2. The Taiwanese "CDC" alerted to this in Dec 2019 and in Jan 2020. The Prez in Feb said this (virus) “goes through air”. Yet, we did not recommend masks in Feb/early March. Why?

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        1. travelblues‏ @blueammon 2 Apr 2021
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          The main takeaway for me: the Trump CDC knew in mid-Feb ‘20 that asymptotic transmission was not just real but a major source of transmission, and that it was airborne and we should’ve all been wearing masks.

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        1. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧‏ @theowinter 2 Apr 2021
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          Yup. Hindsight is always 2020, but that ship has sailed.

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