#Sars2

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the new strain of SARS2 in the UK.It's more than just a single mutation: 14 non-synonymous changes and several deletions.https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisation-of-an-emergent-sars-cov-2-lineage-in-the-u

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

One question that many people ask me is "how likely is a lab escape vs natural origins of SARS2?"And everyone complains when I refuse to give some kind of probability

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the topic of controversial SARS2 mutations. I've been delaying a thread on D614G because I think people watching US elections do not have the emotional/mental bandwidth to deal with

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Quote: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press briefing on Friday that the UN agency was continuing "to establish the origins of the virus to prevent future outbreaks."https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/fi

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Following @StephenMcDonell on @WHO covid origins investigation in Wuhan. First 3 days visited 2 hospitals, Wuhan covid exhibition, cold storage, and the shutdown seafood market.Hope WHO is getting data on

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

I've been getting many questions about pre-Wuhan covid cases detected around the world. In particular, 2 studies: Barcelona (March 2019) and Italy (Sep 2019); as well as the widely disseminated

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

The only primary study proposing evidence of human infection by SARS2 (covid-19) from frozen fish packaging is a Nov 2020 paper by the Chinese CDC. It was cited by Shi

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Viruses are hoody-wearing hackers, but SARS2 is hardly the cleverest. My votes go to HIV, rabies, and herpes. Here are top 10 virus hacks (each a reason I love virology

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. There are a lot of candidate vaccines in development, but we still have a long way to go. Vaccines work by training

Jen Simmons

jensimmons

Remember a year ago when they kept telling us COVID was under control in NYC, & would stay under control — that we only had a few cases. Later research

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

@who going to investigate Covid-19 originating from frozen foods rather than #laborigins because lab leak too unlikely based on what the Wuhan lab personnel told them.https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1359093856957005824 Not too confident t

Jesse Matchey

JesseMatchey

About time someone in mainstream media tells the people about this...Imagine if you had done it long before the election? I’ve only banged the drum since around June... @IngrahamAngle maybe

Matt Hall

cispt2

So here's an update on the abandoned UQ COVID vaccine named UQ-CSL v451https://www.uq.edu.au/news/node/127942 First, the release states that the vaccine worked: vaccine elicited a response and "There were no serious

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Second wave in Vietnam, Australia, China, Japan, and news of more cases in other Asian countries.“Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

"severe restrictions ... closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates... did not significantly change the typical pattern or damage

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