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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 3 Apr 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Max Roser

      For Brazil, there’s a lot of focus on their variant which I believe has a weaker evidence base for its effects than the more systematically studied B.1.1.7. But unchecked exponential growth plus hospital system collapse will do just this, tragically, even without any variants.https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378051326647631875 …

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      Max RoserVerified account @MaxCRoser
      COVID deaths have increased very, very rapidly in Brazil recently. http://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer … pic.twitter.com/HP3dP17Ypn
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    2. Zain Chagla‏Verified account @zchagla 3 Apr 2021
      Replying to @zeynep

      I think people are calling this all variant and reinfection not the issues with systemic spread and inequities Case and point South Africa with likely higher immune escapepic.twitter.com/FSzfJbLgqZ

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2021
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      Exactly! We’re focused on things that sounds scary to us (what if it comes here), rather than appear to me to be the bigger drivers. I’m not against identifying variant threats (B.1.1.7!) but the evidence base here is relatively weak also, by itself, would be less catastrophic.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2021
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      (Also yes the way the South Africa trajectory is ignored is... fascinating. It clearly is suggesting key answers about partial immune escape -> NPI sensitivity relationship that deserve attention).

      8:15 AM - 3 Apr 2021
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        2. Zain Chagla‏Verified account @zchagla 3 Apr 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Yeah I agree - this is clearly not all about NPI's in South Africa - where half the population lives in informal townships and an HIV prevalence rate in the adult population of 19%. Immune escape here may not be as "catastrophic" as it sounds.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Apr 2021
          Replying to @zchagla

          Yeah. I think there's a triple problem. Ideologically, variants sound scary (mutant, movie) and threatening to us. They sometimes are, sometimes aren't. Also ideologically, ignoring the obvious continued vulnerability of the essential workers/poor: well, that's what we've done.

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