#Manaus

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Important: on the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 in a place where herd immunity was already attained.The authors lay out 4 reasons:1) didn’t actually attain herd immunity2) waning immunity3) new strains evading

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

GYamey

I want to share my thoughts, as someone who has been so alarmed by the so-called "dissident" scientists like Gupta, Heneghan, Kuldorff, Bhattacharya, & Ioannidis who consider themselves brave Galileos

Patrick W. Watson

PatrickW

In Denmark, where they DNA-sequence *every* positive COVID case, the B117 variant is growing 70% per week, yes, per week, despite strict lockdown.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/uk-variant-covid-denmark/2021/01/22/ddfaf420-5453-

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

The past months have seen several new concerning variants identified in regions across the globe. A thread about the new variants we're seeing in different parts of the world, what

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

This thread from December pointed out that convenience samples are not suitable for any but the coarsest estimates of prevalence, and that the popularity of a prevalence study like this

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

I have used the official data from the state of Amazonas (Brazil), where the city of Manaus is located, and calculated the weekly age-specific incidence (updated daily) since April, and

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

As horrific as #COVID19 looks right now, it is almost certainly about to get worse—“I’m very very concerned that we’ve now gone from a virus that we could control to

C. Coq-Chodorge

ccoqchodorge

L’interview de JF Delfraissy sur @BFMTV ce soir signe un tournant dans la pandémie de coronavirus. Avec les variants, on est devant « l’équivalent d’une deuxième pandémie » Thread difficile

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

THREAD: British people are so thick that they will watch the government make exactly the same mistake for a fourth time, and carry on cheering. Ok, yes, you're being lied

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) So, this morning I promised a little tweetorial about variants and here we go. This will be from a vaccine/antibody point of view only, I won't comment on how

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a really dangerous misinformed claim going around relating to COVID-19 vaccines.A while ago there was a trendy idea that part of the hypercoagulability from COVID-19 was because of endothelialitis

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Matt Hancock: "the way we deal with new variants arising is to respond to them as they arise. The 1st line of defence is to identify & stop spread." This

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

Now the SARS-CoV-2 variants that were first identified in the UK (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), and Brazil (P.1) have been found in the US, a couple of thoughts (i.e., speculation...)

Liz Davidson

LizDavidson_UK

Agradeço muito ao pela visita ao Amazonas em um momento crucial da agenda de desenvolvimento sustentável no Brasil e no mundo. Compartilho aqui minhas impressões destes três dias e

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

TROUBLESOME—The new variants that each have the tricky antibody-evading E484k mutation are what worries me.This Science piece summarizes what I’ve been warning last 2 weeks w/ the new South Africa

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