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 …
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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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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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I’m all for keeping an eye on variants but... Yeah, this isn’t it.
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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 …
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Eric Feigl-DingVerified account @DrEricDingThe 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/fzZC3VAJdZShow this thread14 replies 32 retweets 286 likesShow this thread -
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 …
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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.
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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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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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Replying to @zeynep
Thank you. We REALLY need more credentialed voices like yours to call this garbage out. Sincerely, -Every Layperson
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This isn't right though. He has *way more* credentials than I do in the field. The problem isn't his alleged lack of credentials, as you can see in the above thread.
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But you *do* have credentials in the field. And you have a balanced position on COVID (i.e. - it's neither the end of the world nor a simple head cold - but it is somewhere in between). You provide data and evidence to support this. So what is the resolution to this then?
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