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vedran sekara
@vedransekara
Asst professor @ITUkbh. Previously @UNICEFinnovate & @sony Working on data representativeness, AI bias, and crappy algorithms 🤖 #TechWillNotSaveUs
Jan 19, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
#COVID thoughts

In the "west" we're really worried about the current UK strain and fear any new mutation. Our newspapers write tons of articles about mutations no matter how insignificant. Epidemiologists have written countless tweets about dangers + likelihood of happening ... We've discused how certain vaccine rollout strategies are more likely than others to "select" for mutations, etc (not to hate on Carl below👇), BUT NOBODY is talking about how unequal access to vaccines is the biggest thing we should worry about!

Apr 17, 2020 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
To contact trace, or not to contact trace, that is the question many governments are asking themselves at the moment

But will #contact_tracing really work in our battle against #COVID19?

Let me tell you why contact tracing efforts are bound to fail ...

1/n Recently there has been a lot of attention on contact tracing as an intervention to fight #COVID19

Various frameworks have been proposed with #DP3T, a decentralized approach looking to win out

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