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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 7 Apr 2021

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    When I wrote this article about the looming threat of B.1.1.7—on New Year's Eve of 2020—it wasn't yet established as more lethal, but just more transmissible—bad enough. It appears *also* to be more lethal. Today, the CDC said it is now the dominant strain in the United States.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1344711352947011584 …

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    zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
    Heard about the new variant? That it appears to be much more transmissible but not more lethal? That's true but no relief. Transmissibility is an *exponential* risk and thus a huge threat. We need aggressive public health action now—especially vaccination. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/ … pic.twitter.com/I13Y9zlMJX
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Apr 2021

        It's been just three months, and we're facing regional surges with increasing hospitalizations and deaths already, despite the biggest successful vaccination program in the world. That's how exponential threats work. By the time we get it together, the challenge is much harder.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Apr 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Tatiana

        Yes, yes and yes. Although some of the vaccines have maybe taken a bit of a hit against their ability to prevent symptomatic disease (but not necessarily severe disease), all of them appear to work very well against this one & probably against others, too.https://twitter.com/taterTATi__/status/1379976681277034503 …

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        Tatiana @taterTATi__
        bruhhh 🤦🏾‍♀️ does the vaccine protect against it ? https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1379975895352553476 …
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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Apr 2021

        So, we will be (mostly) fine in the United States, but if we can vaccinate faster, especially where the outbreaks are surging, we can minimize the suffering. But there are so many countries around the world facing terrible outbreaks, and not enough vaccines to go around.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Apr 2021

        I'm really worried about the rest of the world, many facing surges with more transmissibility, without vaccines, population tired, economies challenged... That's how things head also into unchecked exponential growth and hospital collapse. Like Brazil. We need to act, globally.

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      2. Fanni K‏ @fannika 7 Apr 2021
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        Not variant related but THANK you for your latest Insight! I am from Hungary and read Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain as a teenager WHILE having pneumonia...so the romance, of course, was paramount in my mind. I so appreciate you link our current version moralizing to the past's.

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      3. Fanni K‏ @fannika 7 Apr 2021
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        I recommend that everyone read this in full: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/pandemic-as-metaphor ….

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