The Dutch health minister wrote ystdy: “Other countries may well have the variant as well - the UK may just have picked it up first because that country has the most sophisticated SARS-CoV-2 genomic monitoring in the world.”
#THREAD on #newstrain of #COVID19 my @DrEricDing
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1340911632147488768
#THREAD on #newstrain of #COVID19 my @DrEricDing

Some people are expressing surprise that the UK has such advanced genomic monitoring
In Sept, @MattHancock quietly launched #GenomeUK, a 10 year strategy that puts genomics at the heart of their programme for govt
The military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, is involved. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1313751270549860354
In Sept, @MattHancock quietly launched #GenomeUK, a 10 year strategy that puts genomics at the heart of their programme for govt
The military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, is involved. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1313751270549860354
In 1996, Carl Sagan warned:
“We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance & power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”
That time is approaching https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1330489040387366914
“We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance & power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”
That time is approaching https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1330489040387366914