#Variant

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Finland detects UK & SA variants. As immune pressure on virus grows, evolution will speed up & any variants that escape that immunity will have selective advantage. Both variants huge

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

A lot of people have been asking how we have managed to get R below 1 (and in fact comparable to first lockdown levels?), given that we have the new

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan?No?How about one from South Korea?No?Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam?Of course notBecause these places haven't given rise to scary variantsBut what places have.....has

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

The new Variant Under Investigation (VUI) was re-designated Variant of Concern (VOC) 202012/01 on 18 DecemberThis is an excellent report by @PHE_UK, but it’s a bit technical so I’ll try

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Lots of tweets about this today! Let's see what we can see in the focal S:E484 build!Phylogenetics (what I do - making 'family trees' from virus genetics) can be very

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1. I am convinced that the new "UK variant" of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.1.7) is a big problem. I look forward to seeing more epidemiology by more labs (not my area), but

Dr Marie Casey

marietcasey

Here's what we need in relation to Covid communications right now.1. More from my colleagues on what's going on in the different regions in Ireland. Most departments do not have

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Worrisome discovery—Among placebo group for Novavax’s vaccine in South Africa: people with prior #COVID19 infections appeared just as likely to get sick as people without prior infections—means past infection wasn’t

leChuck the halls with boughs of SheRa

SheRa_Marley

A thread of ways to a give a charity donation at xmas as a gift: please add your ideas belowThis is great: a certificate for Refugee Community Kitchen, which tells

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME MATH—#B117 variant is so crazy: what happens if there are just 10 cases now, & new #B117 has 50% transmissibility? 1000+ daily cases on Mar232000+ daily cases on

Áine O'Toole

AineToole

Latest SARS-CoV-2 lineage of concern report for 2021-01-14 now available at https://cov-lineages.org/global_report.html. @arambaut @EvolveDotZoo @MOUGK @viralverity Today, B.1.1.7 was assigned to 15,369 sequences on GISAID from 36 countries

Nisha Thampi

NishaOttawa

1/It's the eve of provincial announcements on schools reopening for in-person instruction.Households are under stress and experts are divided on whether schools are unicorns or infernos.Everyone wants to do right

Lost in the Shire

hobbitoncentral

Part 1Here’s the Hancock breakdown in case you missed it:1) it’s the public’s fault 2) I’m not answering that question about the police arresting people - properly 3) act like

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FOLKS—if you think #COVID19 cases is really bad in the US, it is even more epically surging in the UK & Ireland . I made a short video... and

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Good morning! I have some updates! Preliminary data from our studies indicate our vaccine along with Pfizer’s will likely be effective against the Coronavirus variants and ALL of their associated

Kaspars Ozolins

lettlander

THREAD: Who is Beelzebul? In Matthew 10:25, Jesus hints that he, the master of the house, will be called Beelzebul, even as his disciples will be maligned. The Greek word

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