#Manaus

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ New COVID variants are emerging:- B.1.1.7 from the UK: more transmissible, possibly more virulent. Even if not more virulent, more transmissible = more infections, more disease, more hospitalizations, more

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?

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

There's been a lot of news today about 'new variants in Brazil' & 'S:E484' and 'Ohio variants'. A short thread discussing what we know about each.1/11#SARSCoV2 #Ohio #BrazilVariant #Brazil #COVID19

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

lisa_iannattone

It’s come to my attention that some leaders of Western countries, and @francoislegault, still haven’t understood that herd immunity is achieved through vaccines, not infection, and are dangerously subjecting their

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Concerning data from PHE today suggesting that sequencing shows that there are 11 cases of the UK variant (B117) identified that also have the E484K mutation (the one found in

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

This seems like an important point for understanding Manaus. If your blood donor samples consist of people who suspected they probably had COVID and wanted a result, you may overestimate

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

The Brazil Manaus #COVID19 epidemic is getting epically worse. And many scientists suspect it might be because of the new Brazil P1 variant of #SARSCoV2, which has many multiple

Health Nerd

GidMK

A lot of people have been talking about it, so I thought I might do a bit of a thread on plausible reasons for the decline in COVID-19 cases in

CADDE Project

CaddeProject

Here is a thread to accompany our work published today in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/07/science.abe9728), comparing SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody prevalence in Manaus and São Paulo. @FAPESP @The_MRC @I

ًdebs. OXYGEN FOR MANAUS

kthperseus

What's happening in Manaus; An extremely important thread. Hi, I’m from Manaus and the the situation here is catastrophic, state hospitals are collapsing without oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients. We

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Estimated 76% Manaus and 29% São Paulo population infected by covid by October."These results confirm that, when poorly controlled, COVID-19 can infect a high fraction of the population causing high

🐊Ponce, JC. MSc, PhD. 💉

jasonptodd

Fio importantíssimo que tomo aqui a liberdade de traduzir, porque acredito que traz informações essenciais que talvez expliquem o que está acontecendo em Manaus. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1350039932090376193 A epidemia de CO

Development Canada

CanadaDev

As we continue to cope with #COVID19, the most vulnerable must not be forgotten. Measures to support #SocialDistancing & sanitation to combat the pandemic look different around the ,

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

“Pandemic anxiety has turned lately to the question of viral evolution—the possibility that the disease might be outracing our efforts to contain it.” Of all the new strains, the Brazilian

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

After Black Death, ungovernable state and depopulation lasted almost 200y. It is not a given that the world is necessarily governable simply because we prefer it. Governance escape is possible

Just An Ordinary Bloke

Unusual_Times

Bradford: covid wave 2Watching the Doctors and Nurses on Channel 4's news in Bradford Royal Infirmary is heartbreaking. They look shellshocked exhausted and helpless.I was born in one of the

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