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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 7 May 2021

      It's a huge advance, not a minor change. It explains so much of what went wrong and how to do better. We started with an incorrect theory of how COVID-19 transmits. One key error goes back a century. And it took a pandemic year to get to even this point. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html …pic.twitter.com/KDmPPUfu6M

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      It's a long piece—and honestly, maybe I have maybe 10% of just the narrative in there, and maybe 2% of the history—let alone the fascinating science. I'm co-author on this peer-reviewed piece in The Lancet that explains some scientific details/issues. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00869-2/fulltext …pic.twitter.com/Y557LUCwVK

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      It is *really* important for the WHO, the CDC and all the public health agencies to publicize this and lead because there are also a lot of misconceptions—some stemming from the same errors. Masks and distance are still important, for example, but need more context to evaluate.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      And... Wow. The New York Times is reporting that the CDC has just updated its descriptions of how COVID-19 is transmitted via aerosols. (Reading the CDC new version now). Eppure galleggia. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/health/coronavirus-airborne-threat.html …pic.twitter.com/yeYHu6yFV9

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted The New York Times

      Incredible week. First the WHO, now the CDC. It'll take work to have all this be heard, and correctly. Just today, I saw Canada is planning to close beaches "to protect against variants." It takes more than a few website updates to fix a year of messaging.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1390750809005203462 …

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      The coronavirus spreads through airborne transmission, particularly indoors, and even beyond six feet, the CDC emphasized on Friday. The new guidance is a change from the agency’s previous position that most infections were through “close contact.” https://nyti.ms/3bdpPZ0 
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      To get the significance of this, *just last week*, key UK infection control societies published a review with the same conflations/errors that CDC and WHO just moved towards correcting—and rated fomite and aerosol transmission (outside of medical procedures) as equally possible.pic.twitter.com/xmMhCrcOBK

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

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      I want to add this here. Also, the story is really fascinating and much longer in terms of the sociology of science, standards of evidence, the scientific details and more, but we cut it to "only" about 5,000 words because that's already so long. 😁https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1390766250775744512 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Replying to @corybe
      It's all now called "essays" when you do analyses. Thank you! :-D It was fact-checked within an inch of its life by a team. Pretty much every word is deeply documented. Also I have maybe there times the story, that could easily past similar fact-checking, but already so long!
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      I have a growing databases detailing rules and restrictions around the world—to this day—that made sense from where we started—short-range respiratory droplets—but do not make sense at all, and are even counterproductive. Need to change that AND also emphasize what remains same.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021

      Aerosol scientists kept telling me that plexiglass barriers might be making things *worse* by blocking ventilation. Just out in Science. Desk shields associated with *increased* illness risk in schools. Closing playground? Also uptick. So many upshots. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/28/science.abh2939 …pic.twitter.com/JZs0CcdCO8

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    10. Ahmed A Medien‏ @AhmedMedien 7 May 2021
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      There was a mini study in Switzerland’s that the shields led to more transmission inside restaurants, etc.

      1 reply 5 retweets 27 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 May 2021
      Replying to @AhmedMedien

      Do you have a link?

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        2. Ahmed A Medien‏ @AhmedMedien 7 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Yes. There was this. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-swiss-visor/swiss-doctor-pans-plastic-visors-after-covid-19-hits-restaurant-workers-idINKCN24F239 …. I guess now perhaps it was only anecdotal.

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        3. aussagekrampf‏ @aussagekraft 7 May 2021
          Replying to @AhmedMedien @zeynep

          Indeed, purely anecdotical, incomplete, and basically worthless, as most "evidence" published at this time. Still, it had a huge influence back then.

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