The U.K. COVID variant - some tweets in a thread. This does not seem okay.

Association between SARS-COV-2 viral load and mutations associated with the new U.K. variant https://twitter.com/OxfordViromics/status/1341491766915198980?s=20
"If multiple data sources point towards substantially increased transmission, it suggests we have big problem."

https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1341668509265375233?s=20

H/t @R_H_Ebright
So yeah, terrifying is another (seemingly apt) way to put it. https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1341753689049067520?s=20
Time to beg for your lives, everyone!

Petition 1 is for NYS (use it to make one for your state). 2 versions, hoping people use MoveOn version.
Petition 2/Tweet 3 is for NYC schools
Petition 3/Tweet 4 is the foundation needed for all of us - aerosols. https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1341572571553251328?s=19
The NEW new variant "This new variant is highly concerning, because it is yet more transmissible, and it appears to have mutated further than the new variant has been discovered in the UK," he said.

South Africa and UK https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN28X1Y5?__twitter_impression=true
Mutated coronavirus variant from S.Africa found in UK, health minister says

A new, potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been found in Britain in cases linked to South Africa, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on...

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN28X1Y5?__twitter_impression=true
See above on the new new variant that's in the UK from (and in) South Africa.

Remember this from South Africa?

Look at the numbers of teens that got it - I think there were only 66 tested who didn't?

https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1338306162274562049?s=19

From @akm5376 / @jmcrookston
Another helpful thread on the new COVID UK variant. I think this is "just" for the new variant. Not the new-new one. 😬

https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1341857733633581063?s=19
South Africa - positivity rate 26% https://twitter.com/DrZweliMkhize/status/1341834945313054727?s=19
Here's a really easy to follow explainer from South Africa on their COVID variant. Schools were up and running there but they're not mentioned.

I know that I'm always calmed when someone tells me not to panic 4 times with a frantic drumbeat behind it: https://twitter.com/DrZweliMkhize/status/1342075203170529281?s=19
https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1341957845512835075?s=19
https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1342155608108261383?s=19
https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1343567425107881986?s=19
https://twitter.com/RioSlade/status/1343686414026891269?s=19
More on the Andromeda strain - well that's my take on what's happening with these massive jumps. So intuition!

Information here: https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1343760644600954880?s=19
The South African variant has been found in seven other countries: the UK, Switzerland, Finland, Japan, Australia, Zambia and France.

Showing up in 90% of 400 sampled tests. https://twitter.com/BernieDogs4/status/1344860017233702913?s=19
British variant now, vs potential for March. Can we use the Israeli plan please? Lockdown and focus on vaccines. https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1344508533467799552?s=19
Back to South Africa and look at this. I need to look at their mitigation compared to ours, and their rate of compliance a bit.

https://twitter.com/rid1tweets/status/1344724107666087938?s=19

So concerned about this strain.
UK variant went like wildfire under lockdown conditions. Thread/some explanation here - other than wow that's bad (& South Africa worse?). Especially since our politicians are weaker than even Boris Johnson. Hoo boy. Happy New Year.

https://twitter.com/MoritzGerstung/status/1344239156260712449?s=19
Via @PaulSorrentino3
More on the British variant.

We should follow Israel - now - save us heartache. Lock down. Use schools to provide community vaccination hubs. Set times and days by comorbidities and risk, by however else you're distributing the vaccine - age, work, etc. https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1345046699191001090?s=19
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