#Variant

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) As Quebecers await word on whether a more contagious variant of the #coronavirus is circulating in the province, it’s worth reviewing the latest provincial data on workplace outbreaks, with

Free Spiritus 😷

freespiritus

1/3 If you check my twitter feed — I have been sounding the alarm about BC’s COVID leadership since May. Everything that I’ve said — about masks, testing, asymptomatic spread,

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Am optimistic about late spring and summerBut concerned about next couple of monthsSo let's chat whyB117 – the UK variantIts here and spreading quicklyGreat new analysis by @k_g_andersen et al

Joshua Loftus

joftius

#COVID19 hospital admissions in London seem like they're continuing to fallI was skeptical about the new variant story early on, here's a short thread in chronological order of things I

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about naming SARS-CoV-2 variants and coming up with a standardised naming system. There was some discussion of this last week at

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) The biggest worry for vaccines about the new UK variant is the N501Y mutation in the receptor binding domain. This is also a mutation that appears when SARS-CoV-2 is

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

So... there is a worrying “reasonable concern… that the South African #SARSCoV2 variant might be more resistant” to current vaccines, Prof Shabir Madhi, who led trials for Oxford vaccine

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

".. while measured neutralising antibody titres generated by vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine are lower for the B.1.1.7 lineage, clinical efficacy of the vaccine against symptomatic COVID disease is similar

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: Where are we with Covid-19 in England now that the new tiers have started? TLDR: nowhere good and things are quite scary. 1/13 Firstly, overall cases are rising sharply.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME & SERIOUS—You know how the world put travel bans against UK travel out of fear of the #B117 more contagious variant? Well, now, UK put travel ban from

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

New #covid19 variant #B117 has led to vastly different responses around the globe.Japan, for instance, has stopped all foreigners from entering until the end of January— they had detected cases

Mark Shrime, MD PhD

markshrime

Let’s talk about why we can’t just rely on vaccines to end this #pandemic, now that the new variants are around A thread based on this paper from the

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Switzerland has now banned flights from the UK - following on from an increasing number of other countries.If the new UK variant may already be in more countries across Europe,

Sam McBride

SJAMcBride

Health Minister Robin Swann's paper to the Executive last night (conveying advice of CMO & CSA) - which recommended guidance not to fly into NI from GB, rather than a

Andy Walker

Andy_Walker

Here are some of key papers, docs, and threads on the emergent variant of SARS-CoV-2 that I've come across. Please do comment with more (1/n) (Not directly about the new

Ed Tubb

EdTubb

1/n I asked Public Health Ontario about the state of testing for the B.117 variant that's behind the *really bad* case curves in Ireland and the U.K.I'm told PHO is

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