#B117

Humans living in linear scale are always surprised by the BOOM. @EpsilonTheory is right. If America looks like the UK, in 30-45 days Covid shit gets too bad to ignore.https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/?utm_campaign=website&a
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Holy cow: 10% of the village of Corzano has the #B117 variant—10% of all residents! 60% of cases are kids from kindergarten and primary school, other 40% are their
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A NEW HOPE: 27x more effective than Remdesivir against #COVID19 in lab study –Aplidin is a drug derived from a marine sea squirt found only in waters off island
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The AstraZeneca/Oxford (AZ) COVID vaccine (ChAdOx) results in South Africa are concerning. * The AZ vaccine had 75% efficacy against mild COVID through October 2020.* But only 22% efficacy more
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Thread: on the problems with Covid vaccination in the EU. The 27 have bought vaccines and is approving them as a bloc. Giving those medicines to people, once okayed by
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Testing some quick feedback #COVID #forecasts80% confidence intervals:7 day average of US COVID deaths at EOD 12 Feb per NYT - 2400 to 2800 (mean 2600) (currently 3054)cases - 60K
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Worrisome discovery—Among placebo group for Novavax’s vaccine in South Africa: people with prior #COVID19 infections appeared just as likely to get sick as people without prior infections—means past infection wasn’t
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People who are misguided on k12 COVID-19 cases and ask "Is it safe to open schools yet?" are asking the wrong question.One of many right questions is: "What is this
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1/n Israël. Ca me chagrine mais il faudrait qu'on m'explique ce mystère. 90% des décès et environ 80% des hospitalisés en réanimation ont plus de 60 ans, une réduction de
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It's sad we still need to say this, but false positives are NOT driving rising cases.In the summer the False Positive Rate (FPR) at lots of labs was below 0.1%.For
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I’m dearly hoping govt releases some actual data on the lethality of the new variant.Holding a press conference to announce this ominous news alongside vague caveats about uncertainty is not
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Sorry to say I'm here with some hard reality checks for people already planning their post-vaccine summer (and sorry to say even fall/winter.)But first we need to talk about herd
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Spoke to @DebraArbecCBC tonight about the loosening of covid restrictions in #Quebec - way too early to be letting our guard down, esp w/ new variant we need to think
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1/ #BetterMasks - why and howFirst, why do we even need high-filtration masks right now?Increasingly, we are going to be (or already are) in crowded, poorly ventilated spaces- groceries, public
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The past months have seen several new concerning variants identified in regions across the globe. A thread about the new variants we're seeing in different parts of the world, what
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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
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