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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 11 Apr 2021

      CNN article on how to safely fly claims that 90% vaccine efficacy means that🙄 for every million who fly, we could have 100,000 infections. NO NO NO. That’s not what that number means. Also, this didn’t even happen when millions flew unvaccinated. So how could it make sense now?pic.twitter.com/4MLW5oFw4f

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2021

      I realize it’s tough. Everyone is suddenly writing about the pandemic, no matter what their topic. And vaccine efficacy is a relative measure, so those are always pesky. But we’ve had the vaccines for many months now, and by now one would hope for a slightly better understanding.

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Aaron Astor

          Yeah. That’s why it isn’t a good way to represent the risk of flying even if you could concoct a scenario under which you can imagine that number.https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1381225496067899392 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Aaron Astor @AstorAaron
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          Or maybe a better way to frame it is if one million people fly and covid viral particles are literally pumped into the aircraft cabin for the duration of a flight, 100,000 could become infected.
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        1. Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB -  💉 💉‏ @wanderer_jasnah 11 Apr 2021
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          personally i think the "number significantly worse than *the situation we were seeing months ago before we even *had* vaccines" thing is a special level of wtf.

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        2. Dumbfounded by the dumb I’ve found‏ @dumbfinder_ 11 Apr 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          I think part of your response here would be the accurate framing. Which is - correct me if I'm wrong, please - that 100% have a 10% chance of moderate to severe symptoms (the efficacy isn't defined well here).

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        3. Carol Braun‏ @CarolBraun 11 Apr 2021
          Replying to @dumbfinder_

          I think it’s much less dire than that. The way I think of it is that, roughly, whatever people’s odds were of getting Covid under normal-life exposure conditions for some period of time, which was already less than 10%, their chances are only 10% of THAT risk if vaccinated.

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        1. Ken Connor‏ @connorken 11 Apr 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          So rewrite it ... once for the generally thoughtful people who know nothing about probability & modeling and once for the people who do. Most people have no idea what risk is, so we have to see what we can do to improve the conversation.

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        2. Brian Morrissey‏ @bmorrissey 11 Apr 2021
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          It’s simply bad reporting. And for whatever reason these pieces always err on the side of alarmism.

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        3. Cynthia B. Meyers‏ @AnneHummert 11 Apr 2021
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          Alarmism sells

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        1. Lejanaysola‏ @Lejanaysola 11 Apr 2021
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          You're too optimistic, too mny ppl are still more worried about fomites, too many still don't wear masks properly.

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        1. Peter Monnerjahn‏ @PeterMonnerjahn 11 Apr 2021
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          Peter Monnerjahn Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          It’s actually not tough. It’s #Journalism 101, aka critical thinking: You show whatever you write to anyone who knows anything about the topic and tell them to flag anything that needs improving. Unbelievable that this is still not common practice.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1381225245068165126 …

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          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          I realize it’s tough. Everyone is suddenly writing about the pandemic, no matter what their topic. And vaccine efficacy is a relative measure, so those are always pesky. But we’ve had the vaccines for many months now, and by now one would hope for a slightly better understanding.
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        1. Ratfink Maloney‏ @ratfink_maloney 11 Apr 2021
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