#E484K

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/BREAKING on #SARS_CoV_2 variants: the emerging variants in South Africa and Brazil that harbor the E484K mutation have "greatly reduced susceptibility" to neutralization by polyclonal serum antibodies derived from some

Julia Belluz

juliaoftoronto

Have a new story out about the scientific reasons why the UK (B.1.1.7) and South Africa (501Y.V2) variants are so deeply concerning, even for vaccine protection. A short to summarize:https://www.vox.com/22213033/covid-19-mutation-variant-va

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

After many months with little to suggest that SARS-CoV-2 was evolving to transmit more readily or evade immune responses, we are now concerning variants such as B.1.1.7 emerge and spread,

Dr Assala Lamaa

AssalaLamaa

ينتشر خبر"طفرة على السلالة المتحورة في بريطانيا تقلل من فعالية اللقاح".في الحقيقة هذه الطفرة هي احدى طفرات المتغيرين الجنوب أف

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Things are getting complicated with variants.The problem is that there are not one or two variants - there are many.A short thread on varaints and mutations. (Naming them after places

Alex Beisenherz

Belex70

(1)Saisonalität und die Hoffnung auf ein Abschwächen bei hohen Temperaturen wird für #SARSCoV2 immer wieder angeführt. Wenn wir uns aber die Inzidenz-Entwicklung der #501V2-Variante im sommerlichen Südafrika anschauen, stirbt die

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

REINFECTION WARNING from the WHO. “We are now getting reports of people getting reinfected with a new variant—from (#B1351)—suggesting people who’ve had prior infection could get infected again.” says

Anıl

ncholiA

1/ All eyes are on England because of the #B117 variant (501Y.V1/VOC202012/01).But WHY could the variant #B1351 (501Y.V2) detected in South Africa pose a bigger danger?To better understand this, let's

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about naming SARS-CoV-2 variants and coming up with a standardised naming system. There was some discussion of this last week at

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

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

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Situation with new #sarscov2 variants is becoming harder to follow (and not just because of the names), so let me try and give a brief overview: Where are we at?

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

NEW VARIANT—New California variant CAL20C has recently found in over **half** of all samples in Los Angeles #COVID19 cases, & ~20-30% across CA. “I’m decently confident that this is a

Irene Tosetti

itosettiMD_MBA

COVID-19 in Africa: A pair of studies lays out sobering COVID-19 data for Africa, and for Zambia in particular. In The BMJ, researchers collected postmortem nasopharyngeal samples from nearly 400

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

Again, lots of clamour to close the borders or have mandatory hotel quarantine, and Scotland now implementing managed quarantine for all itl arrivals.But the latest PHE report and other analysis

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

Now the SARS-CoV-2 variants that were first identified in the UK (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), and Brazil (P.1) have been found in the US, a couple of thoughts (i.e., speculation...)

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