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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 15 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted b18c1swap

      Yes, part of it. I've suggested mandates since May, but as @ScottGottliebMD says, big carrots are better than big sticks when possible. Research shows an uptick in vaccine hesitancy among young women/mothers: a five-alarm fire for childhood vaccination.https://twitter.com/b18c1swap/status/1449005897221562369 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      b18c1swap @b18c1swap
      Replying to @zeynep
      Why not mention that people can’t afford to lose their jobs when discussing mandate success?
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Yep. Smart policy is to allow the unvaccinated who are fearful, frozen, or made a bad decision before to wait and now can't admit it, to cross the line *in a face-saving manner.* Pry that group away from the ideological, loud, rage-inducing anti-vaxxers. https://twitter.com/PaffyRalmeiro/status/1449007804648468480 …

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2021

      I don't begrudge anyone's anger—especially at those stoking fear as a strategy in our increasingly non-responsive politics. Still must work to understand the lay of the land. *They* want it to be only a shouting match. *Their* strategy is to confuse and polarize around the anger.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted bet snyder

      Immunity after infection is *of course* real but research shows vaccines also benefit these people—more flexible policies from them make sense, but we don't even have a system to verify vaccination. So many failures go back to logistics/infrastructure.https://twitter.com/BetSnyder/status/1449011303809437699 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      bet snyder @BetSnyder
      Replying to @zeynep @pragmatism_of
      Struggling to understand how you write a deep dive into the unvaccinated and not mention one single word about the many millions of people who have recovered from a COVID infection and already have immunity. Bizarre, baffling and disappointing.
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kevin Dangoor

      Yep. When I volunteered at a vaccination clinic, we made people *wait* watching others get jabbed, in plain view—exactly the wrong set-up, I've since realized. Needle anxiety is common and can cause people to faint, and yet so little attention to it.https://twitter.com/dangoor/status/1449021788785152000 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Kevin Dangoor @dangoor
      Replying to @zeynep
      Knowing about the fear of needles that some % of people have, it kind of drives me crazy that *so many* articles about the vaccine show a needle going into an arm. It seems like that would just make it harder for those with needle fear.
      20 replies 76 retweets 530 likes
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Codename Dutchess

      Some will get sick and even die—and many are just afraid or confused, not committed anti-vaxxers. Plus, even 10% unvaccinated can overload hospitals: ICUs have little slack. And this keeps the virus circulating more, risking elderly, immunocompromised etc.https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Stick/status/1449024735807950859 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Codename Dutchess @Jimmy_Stick
      Replying to @zeynep
      With 80% of all adults vaccinated does it really even matter to reach these people?
      13 replies 40 retweets 402 likes
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Oct 2021

      Also on the side-effects: I recently had a minor concern during a routine COVID test on a weekend. It resulted in a bill I was told would be between $0 and $4500—and nobody could tell me which, for months. And my insurance is what counts as really solid, for the US. Just nuts.

      15 replies 48 retweets 488 likes
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted S. Mitra Kalita

      A thread with a good local reporting from the NYC area on this topic. "Undervaccinated areas are often barometers of disconnect."https://twitter.com/mitrakalita/status/1449368483075137542 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      S. Mitra KalitaVerified account @mitrakalita
      Don’t forget to read our reams of work on this, making exact same points from Queens https://epicenter-nyc.com/the-7-truths-about-vaccines-right-now/ …
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Oct 2021

      I’m getting objections in versions of “what about those with natural immunity”. Despite looking as hard as I could, I see no evidence of a sizable group among the remaining unvaccinated who have that as a key reason. It’s more an online polarization angle and talking point.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EL_Apostrophe

      I didn’t say you didn’t exist! I just think it is not a sizable category out there. I’ve looked at surveys, read thousand+ answers one by one, look at what reporting we have. It just rarely comes up.

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        2. bet snyder‏ @BetSnyder 17 Oct 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @EL_Apostrophe

          What % of the still-unvaccinated do you think had a prior infection? There’s at a minimum 45.7 million Americans who have tested positive. That’s surely an undercount but let’s just call it 45.7 mil. Do you have an estimate?

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        3. bet snyder‏ @BetSnyder 17 Oct 2021
          Replying to @BetSnyder @zeynep @EL_Apostrophe

          And I really appreciate you engaging in the topic! One reason I think it’s important is we have finite resources, especially doing the heavy lifting of persuading individuals one-on-one. Should we be focusing any of that on those with a prior infection?

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