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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Apr 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Eric Feigl-Ding

      Thousands of retweets for implying a “5X” surge of B1617 variant is related to school openings in the UK—and rising despite vaccination, implying vaccine escape. I looked it up. The UK health secretary says there are “103 cases” and “vast majority” linked to international travel.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1384055231432986628 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Eric Feigl-DingVerified account @DrEricDing
      The new “double mutation” variant from India 🇮🇳 #B1617 is surging fast in UK—5x increase in % of #COVID19 cases in just 2 weeks. Same with the South Africa 🇿🇦 #B1351 variant. When did they increase? After schools reopened. And keep in mind—it’s rising despite high vaccinations. pic.twitter.com/fzZC3VAJdZ
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Apr 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted PoliticsHome

      Sure keep an eye on this variant, like all others—but reality isn’t sufficient to scare parents, I guess so let’s add unlinked stuff together and add “double mutant” and mention schools and imply vaccine failure. Very informative.https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1384160472912384007 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

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      PoliticsHomeVerified account @politicshome
      Matt Hancock has confirmed that India will be added to the travel 'red list' from 4am on Friday He told MPs that 103 cases of the B.1.617 variant — first identified in India — have been found in the UK, the "vast majority" of which are linked to international travel pic.twitter.com/5qw07Vn93O
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Apr 2021

      Even the school opening dates aren’t fully aligned with these overwhelmingly travel-linked 103 cases, but you never know! Double mutants can go from airports to schools without passing through the community, and can do time travel and turn vaccines into pumpkin.pic.twitter.com/i1QYp0HaHK

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Apr 2021

      Oh, wait it gets even better. Well, worse. I also learned that UK sequences *every* positive traveler (good idea) to check for variants, so those 103 cases that are mostly linked to international travel are likely overrepresented in the database—which wasn’t random to begin with.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Apr 2021

      I’m all for keeping an eye on variants but... Yeah, this isn’t it.

      6:26 PM - 19 Apr 2021
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Eric Feigl-Ding

          Correction: I’ve learned that Scottish primary schools opened in late February! But this is still garbled scaremongering and primary schools in Scotland have nothing to do with travel-linked 103 cases oversampled in a genomic database (really took five minutes to figure it out).https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1384055231432986628 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Eric Feigl-DingVerified account @DrEricDing
          The new “double mutation” variant from India 🇮🇳 #B1617 is surging fast in UK—5x increase in % of #COVID19 cases in just 2 weeks. Same with the South Africa 🇿🇦 #B1351 variant. When did they increase? After schools reopened. And keep in mind—it’s rising despite high vaccinations. pic.twitter.com/fzZC3VAJdZ
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Eric Feigl-Ding

          Chart is from non-random database. UK sequences every travel positive. There were 103 travel linked cases recently from India for this variant and the uptick is almost certainly that introduction, not “it’s outcompeting.” You can even see it’s those 103 cases by eyeballing chart.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1384056092502597636 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Eric Feigl-DingVerified account @DrEricDing
          2) How does the India variant compare to #B117? It seems to be increasing faster than any other variant in the UK. It’s outcompeting it. pic.twitter.com/bM3gmK5xVP
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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Apr 2021

          While trying to object to his many misleading statements, many point out Dr. Ding is a nutritional epidemiologist or get personal. I don't think that's fair. I have far less credentials than him in the field. But that's not the issue: above took five minutes and third-grade math.

          14 replies 36 retweets 377 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          The situation in India is dire, deserves our outmost attention. It may just be unchecked exponential growth OR we may eventually find that this variant has threatening attributes, including higher transmissibility. We can say all that, without the above. https://twitter.com/JoshNH4H/status/1384484179518312451 …

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Apr 2021

          Look, I am not picking on this thread alone but pointing out a pattern that needs to stop. See this example with ~4K retweets: "COVID REPLAPSE" and "may remain in people's brains". Study was *in mice* genetically-engineered to express this very receptor. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1354549000247144449 …pic.twitter.com/nx3MPMLgbp

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Apr 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Steve Byrne

          Below is on my tweet on UK school dates. Answer: @dgurdasani1 thought it was a correction I needed to make. Fine. Scotland schools opened for 5-7 year olds earlier. I don't know what it has to do with the recent ~10 travel-linked cases in Scotland.https://twitter.com/byrnesong/status/1384582352010158084 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Steve Byrne @byrnesong
          Replying to @zeynep
          Only for age 5-7. The rest in mid March. 4 cases as of last week, linked to travel, with possible further 12 linked to travel. Can't see how there's a schools link.
          3 replies 4 retweets 53 likes
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Apr 2021

          UK has a public database—useful even if skewed towards detecting traveler variants. When I have another 10 minutes, I'll create the day-by-day chart of these mostly travel-linked B.1.167 cases that got Eric to declare "it’s outcompeting" illustrated with a cumulative log chart.🤨pic.twitter.com/lFYNEV2apb

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        1. Omer Subhani  ✌‏ @omersubhani 19 Apr 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Can't you just say that guy is a moron and don't listen to him or you're just too nice?? Sometimes you have to be mean.

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        1. Rachel Meadows‏ @rachelmeadows 19 Apr 2021
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          I remember a Tweet from a few months ago, maybe it was yours? - it talked about how COVID isn't some sentient being, always thinking one step ahead in terms of mutations/variants. In fact, it has a limited number of moves, and at some point, science/vaccines will win out.

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