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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      In a great moral strain, more people died of AIDS *after* we had a drug. Where is our never again? Yes, increasing vaccine supply is harder but that means we need to try harder. Waiving patents is fine but without other actions, it's "thoughts and prayers" of vaccine equity.pic.twitter.com/e1cyn3TBxu

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      We should stop quibbling over which vaccine. For what we face, *any* vaccine is better than none. United States, Russia, China, UK, Europe... Everyone with a vaccine needs get together to figure out how to grab every last bit of capacity, make more—and direct it to crisis areas.pic.twitter.com/oTjEZXYHxy

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      Look, we are not naive, we get it. But we have to rise above it. Forget the slow vaccine diplomacy and the bureaucracy. Whatever capacity we have, it should be commandeered—through whatever means necessary. If we need to just pay, just pay. It's not time to be prudent or frugal.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      When vaccines arrived, I volunteered at a clinic. Thousands of jubilant elderly people showed up each day. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life. Now, the clinic has vaccines but few show up. We just can't have "our" pandemic be over when the world looks like this.pic.twitter.com/sKOxwgcVG7

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Meaghan Kall

      If we keep being this slow, it won't matter. People will get infected before they get a chance to get vaccinated, especially if the latest variant from India is indeed more transmissible as now seems likely. (Even if it is not, B.1.1.7 is bad enough).https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1397989237358747649 …

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      Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg
      Secondary attack rates (the % of all close contacts of a case that go on to be infected) Transmissibility increase now growing - focussing on non-travel related (community cases) 13.5% for B.1.617.2 vs 8.1 for B.1.1.7 67% increased transmissibility, up from 50% last week 😬 pic.twitter.com/mPei7Jv6nN
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      Here's the real talk: all pandemics end. For this one, we have a choice of how it ends, for billions: infection or vaccination. It's that simple, unfortunately. The idea we can slooooooowly get to vaccinating people while they all somehow avoid infection for years is not tenable.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted 李安科 (Tony) ɱ

      Persistent error. One, that number only measures symptomatic breakthroughs. Two, the baseline is "no vaccines": so people ending up on ventilators and dying versus having some cold symptoms. Three, by all means, if you can increase mRNA supply I'm for it.https://twitter.com/protienking/status/1398268198181654531 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      李安科 (Tony) ɱ @protienking
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      60% vs. 94% effectiveness over 7.9 bn people amounts to 2.7 bn effective vaccinations. Hardly a “quibble”.
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      At this moment in history the priority is any vaccine in maximum arms as soon as possible, starting with the most vulnerable and health-care workers where the crisis/outbreak is worst and prior immunity/vaccination is least. VE for symptomatic breakthroughs is lower on the list.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021

      There's a comforting but false fiction that we'll vaccinate the world, just a bit slowly. With even more transmissible variants like B.1.1.7 or B.1.617.2, that fiction is even more hollow. Many will be infected before they have a chance to get vaccinated. https://www.theinsight.org/p/we-need-to-get-real-about-how-the …pic.twitter.com/WnT1hKw3SI

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    10. José Luis  🏛️ᴍ.ᴄ.ʀ.ᴄ.  🇪🇸 🇮🇨‏ @00Bohr 28 May 2021
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      And the worst; that we show the virus our weapon (vaccines) and give it time to evade it. Either we vaccinate the entire planet FAST day and night or we run a serious risk of escape immunology

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2021
      Replying to @00Bohr

      That makes no sense, though. Viruses aren't people, vaccines aren't weapons, and "escape immunology" isn't like antibiotic resistance. But we should vaccinate as fast as possible.

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        1. José Luis  🏛️ᴍ.ᴄ.ʀ.ᴄ.  🇪🇸 🇮🇨‏ @00Bohr 28 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          It is a way of speaking 🤷🏽‍♂️, just like when we attribute to viruses 'sabotage tactics', 'camouflage' or 'study'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517780/ …

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        1. José Luis  🏛️ᴍ.ᴄ.ʀ.ᴄ.  🇪🇸 🇮🇨‏ @00Bohr 28 May 2021
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          It is not like resistance to antibiotics but it will look like when the virus becomes strong in the least protected hosts, it will not know the vaccines but if the more favorable hosts.

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