#Variants

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1. Mask better 2. Distance better 3. Hope no big problem with vaccine production, adverse effects, or variant vaccine escape: by March deaths should decline, by June cases should decline

Simply Biochemistry

SimplyBiochem

1) THREAD - A summary of NERVTAG’s (the U.K. virus committee who advise the government) opinions on the ‘new U.K. strain’ of SARS-CoV-2. 2) We’ve previously discussed our opinions on

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A thread discussing recent evidence on longer gap dosing with Astra/Oxford, Pfizer, current gaps in our understanding of impacts, as well as the possible impact of new variants on vaccine

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Is the new UK variant the same as the new South African variant (501Y.V2)?No.They both share the same mutation in spike: N501Y (N->Y at position 501). However, the 2 variants

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If you want to come up with a prior* for the possible long-term dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, there are two recent papers that I think are useful... (*Prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability) 1/ First,

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tehninini

Abruptly woke up, but decided to watch the briefing from Dr. Fauci on the state of the pandemic from global and national perspective. As someone who can understand the scientific

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

First, some background. RNA viruses all evolve extremely rapidly, but some like influenza are able to accept mutations to their surface proteins in such a way that they can partially

Matt Reynolds

mattsreynolds1

The UK variant may have evolved in just one person, infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus for an unusually long time.So what does this mean for the pandemic, and stopping future

Femi Olaleye

pfemiolaleye

Genotype wahala, relationships and marriage .A thread ! For those who may not know . There is something called genotype . It simply is the make up of the proteins

Nicholas Timpson

nic_timpson

1/6) Delighted to say that our study on genomewide association study of human gut microbiome variation is out today @NatureMicrobiol! Great congrats to #davidhughes @RaesLab @Caketin_Wade @rbacigalupe @mruehlemann https://www.nature.com/art

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) The low efficacy of the Novavax vaccine candidate against the B.1.351 is concerning. However, the data is also reassuring in many ways. First, the vaccine itself worked very well

Harry Stevens

Harry_Stevens

NEW: The U.S.'s pace of vaccinations has sped up. We're at nearly 1.5 million a day. But if we want to get "back to normal" by the end of the

The Long View 🍥

HayekAndKeynes

Operation Warp Speed is chugging along @PantheonMacro @IanShepherdson Only 18% of the population is 65+ (~60m - 120m doses) and less than 2m live in nursing homes (30% of deaths).

Timothée Bruel

Timothee_B

Here is the thread of our new pre-print Sensitivity of infectious SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants to neutralizing antibodies 1/16https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.12.430472v1 In this study, we compared the sensitivity

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

One of the features of the Quran is that certain words with no obvious rhyme or reason will occur in two different pronunciations even when the formula is essentially identical

Jeneen Interlandi

JInterlandi

1/ The things we don’t yet know about the newly discovered sarscov2 variant have been well characterized in a number of places, by a number of excellent people. My favorite

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