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Why it is time (never too late) to get super-serious1. Holiday surge after holiday surge is small potatoes compared with a superspreader strain. B.1.1.7 is here,
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Saw this paper by way of @apoorva_nyc: "Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants"https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.21.214759v1.abstractMy instinct is to expect any preprint on this top
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Oh shit—British traveler visits Japan and violates quarantine upon arrival—decides to go out to restaurants instead. Infects 2 other people with #COVID19 while going out. And guess which
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TWO DIFFERENT #COVID19 PANDEMICS—Many think with cases dropping that pandemic is nearly over. But truth is, there are now 2 different #SARSCoV2 pandemics diverging—old strain is waning, while the more
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BREAKING—new #B117 variant & vaccine data from research lab shows mutations in B117’s spike protein yields a ~3.8x reduction in efficacy of vaccine-generated neutralization antibodies compared to wildtype (WT)
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FANTASTIC NURSING HOME NEWS—Eli Lily’s monoclonal antibody drug can lower the risk symptomatic #COVID19 by 80% when used preventively among nursing home residents. Cuts risks overall by 57% among both
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Immunocompromised 45 year old suffered from #COVID19 for 155 days before he died. The virus was changing very quickly inside the man's body—it acquired a big cluster of >20 mutations—resembled
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How I forecast things - a thread on how my brain works.I get asked this a lot, and I've had quite a few DM's ranging from that is amazing to
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Lots of buzz on emerging data on what mutations in spike protein could mean for binding of antibodies.Unfortunately some have sensationalized really beautiful data built on years of studying other
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BREAKING Le vaccin de Pfizer était efficace contre la mutation N501Y (du variant anglais et Sud Africain ) chez 20 volontairesLe test PRNT montre qu'il n'y a pas de
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Good morning! I have some updates! Preliminary data from our studies indicate our vaccine along with Pfizer’s will likely be effective against the Coronavirus variants and ALL of their associated
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Thread about our preprint on the study of emergence and increased prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant in the US.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.21251159v1 2/First, my Conflict of Interest: I am an employee of Helix.
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1) So, this morning I promised a little tweetorial about variants and here we go. This will be from a vaccine/antibody point of view only, I won't comment on how
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Mode info COVID:les vaccins protègent-ils des variants?Plusieurs travaux en cours de publication répondent a la question.Version courte: oui.Est-ce pour cela qu'on peut laisser courir le nombre de cas+? Non car
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HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD HARDER—Vaccine herd immunity is becoming harder. The formula is (1-(1/R0)) depends on virus contagiousness, which #B117 variant is 40-80% higher & will be dominant soon. So instead
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“There’s clearly something going on with this mutation”: 7 striking new converging variants with same #677 mutations suddenly found. Experts across US independently found them & are worried—all 7 changed
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