#Zeynep

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

2020 may well be the end of the American century. Here's the reason to say all this now. Maybe, just maybe, we will get lucky because of some aspect of

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

I don’t know about this... Forecasts in general can definitely be wrong. Assigning a 99% chance to Clinton winning, for example, was a modeling error. If you don’t have the

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Here is one more look at Supplementary Table 18 from the Moderna NEJM paper, the best direct data we have on this question. Follow me here for a moment

Alex Tabarrok

ATabarrok

I have argued for delaying the second dose in order to hit the virus hard and get more people the first dose. Now epidemiologist @michaelmina_lab and @zeynep make the case

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Agree! One dose = 2x people vaccinated The math is plain & simpleApproach is broken. We do not do what makes sense: w/ rapid tests or making single dose vacc

Hank Green

hankgreen

So, when the vaccines were proved to 90%+ effective at preventing people from getting COVID, science communication world (including me) was quick to have some caveats. One being that the

On Point

OnPointRadio

Today: Risk distortion is a problem when it comes to public health. How do we understand what the real risks are? What's the right way to communicate risk without overselling

LeonardJamesAkaar🧢

LJAkaar67

@NoahRFeldman @MichelleM_MelloDisappointed in Vaccinating America, may have been poor timing, I'd like to hear Prof Mello on this weekend's controversy over ACIP desire to vaccinate 80M younger, healthier essential workers

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dankrutka

EDUCATION LEADERS: Read @zeynep's article to keep educators & students safer.In short, we need less #HygieneTheater & more focus on ventilation since COVID-19 may spread via falling droplets AND floating

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Good morning in sad, jealous tweets. All schools in Taiwan have been open since February. They did not listen to China or WHO in January and immediately masked up and

Good Tweetman

Goodtweet_man

Just asininehttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1359497097767227397 The response to COVID has veered wildly from “who cares” to “black death level shutdown” and its just aggravating “We’re going to shut it all down, ok maybe

Erin

GilmerHealthLaw

Honest q: anyone proposed how they're going to assess who is "high risk" & who isn't in order to get vaccines? Is there going to be a byzantine paperwork requirement

Rob's Dizi World

RobsDiziWorld

I see a lot of people shipping #ZeyBar. I am not against it. I just don't see it happening as an amorous relationship. I see it developing as a beautiful

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

I try not to block actual criticism but things I've started pretty much automatically blocking to make Twitter usable: Snitch-tagging; "Oh you're surprised?" reply guys;People who respond to an article

EndClimateSilence.org

EndClimtSilence

On the Ezra Klein show, speaking about the media's poor initial handling of Covid, @zeynep offered a powerful explanation for the broadcast news' ongoing failure to cover the #ClimateCrisis: the

Emily Bazelon

emilybazelon

yeah I can't tell. The weird thing about the conservative majority opinion is that it acts as if no capacity limits on a house of worship is the same as

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