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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 1 May 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Vincent Rajkumar

      This is important. The fatality rate is not fixed, it's a function of medical care. The calamitous exponential growth in India combined with collapse of even basic resources is a humanitarian catastrophe. It's so horrible that I can't think clearly about it.https://twitter.com/VincentRK/status/1388494709824315401 …

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      Vincent RajkumarVerified account @VincentRK
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      It's unimaginable. India is showing the true of face of what uncontrolled COVID is capable of doing. So many young people are dying because hospitals are overwhelmed. It's extremely tragic when we lose people who could have been easily saved with just oxygen and dexamethasone.
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

      In February of 2020 (a lifetime ago) I got into pandemic writing, mostly just to say that the pandemic outcomes are not fixed. ("Flattening the curve" or even getting ready for mitigations wasn't yet in our mainstream vocabulary then, at least in the US). https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ …pic.twitter.com/Y2xYHhxsBu

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

      Intellectually, I see that epidemic curve and it's clear how much tragedy is already baked-in, and how urgent it is for us to act, now. Emotionally, I can't think straight about it. I can't even look at the curve without sheer horror, let alone the news stories or the pictures.😢

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021

          I don't have much more to add to the urgent calls out there, for the world to act. We don't have the full causal picture yet, and there is a grave danger this catastrophic, exponential explosion in India will also occur in countries in the region also with low vaccination rates.

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        1. Greg Dworkin‏Verified account @DemFromCT 1 May 2021
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          for those just tuning in, ease in with a read or re read of 1918 books and stories COVID is not flu, but 1918 pandemic flu is a decent enough intro

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        1. Vince‏ @VanillaMag1lla 1 May 2021
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          Yup, the deaths scale up disproportionately when hospital systems are overwhelmed. Every life is precious but it is even more tragic that younger adults are perishing in these numbers in India.

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        1. Andy Schmidt‏ @andyaschmidt 1 May 2021
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          This is very similar to how I see global warming. Even what I know intellectually is already baked in is too hard emotionally to grasp. And yet we need to do everything we can to keep the greatest catastrophe in human history from being Armageddon.

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        1. Proud European from Austria 🇪🇺 🇦🇹  🌏‏ @e2dot7182818284 1 May 2021
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          Could a "Battle of Solferino" analogous moment in history lurk within the incredible tragedy? I certainly would hope so.https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/feature/2010/solferino-feature-240609.htm …

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        1. Dana Ludwig‏ @danaludwig 1 May 2021
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          India is breathtaking. We had Italy then New York then Los Angeles, and even then we really didn't know how bad it can get. I hope these images immunize the world against under-estimating the virus.

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        1. Enders Backgammon‏ @KeithOsmun 1 May 2021
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          The stories about crematoriums and pyres were too much for me

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        1. Shivn‏ @shivn 1 May 2021
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          When the pandemic exposes the inadequacies of your health system it morphs into an all engulfing pestilence. There is an IFR for lack of oxygen and it is sadly a natural history study of COVID playing out for the most vulnerable in India without power or access

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        2. Rick W.‏ @rysio67 1 May 2021
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          No longer exponential. It is peaking: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ …

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        3. Rick W.‏ @rysio67 1 May 2021
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          Just as it did in Brazil a few weeks ago: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/ …

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