#Variant

Stephen Smartt

SteveSmartt

On the question of one dose or two for the COVID vaccines. I think it's the right call to delay the 2nd dose from 3 weeks to ~12. Concerns from

Carolyn Snider

DrCarolynSnider

@JustinTrudeau Thank you for increasing travel restrictions but it isn't strict enough. I am a tired frontline EM MD @CAEP_Docs, a leader to a very tired group of HCW and

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

What's going on in with hospital admissions and children with COVID? /thread1) The rates of infection in children (0-19 in this graph) are rising, and higher than in the first

Max Olson

maxolson

This is going to be a LONG thread on how I think about active investing.They say all good investing is value investing. This is true in the sense that you're

Yonatan Grad

yhgrad

New (short) preprint on B117: “Densely sampled viral trajectories suggest longer duration of acute infection with B.1.1.7 variant relative to non-B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2” https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37366884 Why is B117 more transmissi

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Novavax has shared prelim efficacy data by press release:https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-demonstrates-893-efficacy-uk-phase-390% overall, 50% in S Africa (60%) in HIV-.But there's more.

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. #Flu activity remains amazingly low this winter. For the week ending Jan 23, less than 1% of specimens tested for flu came back positive. In the same week last

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

This is an awesome question. (Incoming big thread!)The vaccine studies looked for symptoms of COVID. So it was easy to say from the trials that the vaccines prevented symptoms &

Hayden O'Connor

HaydenJOConnor

Here we have a terrible @liammannix article with an inflammatory headline that relies upon science that has not been peer reviewed. A thread. #auspol #springst #ThisisNotJournalism https://www.theage.com.au/national/public-kept-in-dark-aft

Dave Keating

DaveKeating

Is #COVID19 ‘English mutation’ as scary as Johnson suggested? We don’t know.“In his public comments, Johnson was relaying findings of an expert body advising his government, whose assessment was somewhat less

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Happy Tuesday! The latest focal S:N501 build is now updated with sequences from 11 Jan.There are 101 new sequences in the 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7 #b117) & 501Y.V2 variants.Additionally, I'll include some

Médisa

lacavernemythe

mdr quand je disais que matt Hancock en UK bidonnait les test ^^ et que la descente des cas n'était pas normale.https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing Ben en fait, en augmentant les test et

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A perspective on COVID from a sunny, crisp London house, in a break between zoom calls. Context: I am an expert in human genetics and computational biology; I know experts

Committee of 100 Years of Solitude

alexbaca

There's no ethical consumption under capitalism and my tiny little brain is so exhausted that it is not letting me focus on the shit that I actually need to finish,

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

French Covid thread. Depending on your viewpoint, the figures for the last week are “encouraging” (the government) or “misleadingly stable” (epidemiologists). Average daily cases and deaths fell for the first

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EmojiPan

Technology spared us from many parasites, but also created new, smarter ones. The new ones are not something that we would usually identify as a living entity, because post-biological systems

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