#Variants

Maria Van Kerkhove

mvankerkhove

1) IMPORTANT: today @WHO held an global multidisciplinary multi-agency seminar re #SARSCoV transmissionThank you @OutbreakJake @neil_ferguson @SMHopkins @SSI_dk @fiocruz_en @Tuliodna @CDCgov @AfricaCDC @ECDC_EU @nicd_sa @PHE_uk @DrMikeRyan

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

FYI, if you see declarations about new COVID variants evading immunity:1) this isn't about the vaccines, which work against the variants2) the issue is naturally acquired immunity, based on placebo

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

The interesting comparison to me is not between JNJ's vaccine and the RNA vaccines, but between it and WKV (inactivated virus) vaccines, because they are similar in efficacy. JNJ has

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

Saud AlDubayan, M.D. د.سعود الدبيان

s_aldubayan

Very excited to see our work on deep learning germline variant characterization out today in @JAMA_currentHere is a quick thread on the major findings and takeaways from this study. #CancerResearch

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

I understand what Dr. Frieden is trying to say here but this makes it sound like vaccines will drive the emergence of new variants and compel the virus to mutate

Elizabeth Sampat

twoscooters

Chess variants I made up because I can’t sleep: a thread.HOPPY CHESS: knights now move like pawns. Pawns now move like knights. SUICIDE KINGS: the goal is still to checkmate

District AI

districtai

Covid cases and hosps are falling, fast. What can we possibly rule out? Thread (data used in parenthesis):- Masking? compliance actually increased into this rise...has not increased markedly during the

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

This is a must-read article by @mlipsitch and @kesvelt and I strongly agree with the central points: we urgently need to step up genomic surveillance & get transmission down now

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Hard agree. And if this is useful, let me share something that often gets omitted (not by @kakape).Variants always emerge, & are not good or bad, but expected. The challenge

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Extremely concerned by the quarantine and travel restriction policy in the UK - which is not based on evidence - and *still* doesn't go far enough, despite the really concerning

Mel Miniatures

mel_miniatures

The Mon Calamari vairants (A thread) #TheRiseOfSkywalker @LukeTogniMU helped me out a lot with his collages of images from the movies and Galaxy's Edge. The MC-80 was based on the

Nicholas Drummond

nicholadrummond

There's been some discussion about the need to revisit the UK's MRVP programme. It is clear to me that JLTV plus Eagle or Bushmaster would be more than adequate for

Annamie Paul

AnnamiePaul

Just because you have a right do something, doesn't mean you should.4 reasons why Canada should not draw down vaccines from COVAX: the global vaccine-sharing program that supplies vaccines to

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On Thursday, Public Health Ontario released a major study revealing that out of 1,880 positive #COVID19 samples collected on just one day, Jan. 20, 5.5% were confirmed to be

Karin Kosina

kyrah

Wondering why lockdown seems so much less effective this time around?“Because the graph really reflects two epidemics: one, shrinking fast, that’s caused by older variants of SARS-CoV-2, and a smaller,

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