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Ewan Birney
ewanbirney
I am not full sure people appreciate the impact of B117 strain on the course of the pandemic. TL;DR B117 is "a pandemic inside a pandemic" and demands both monitoring
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Lauren Pelley
LaurenPelley
U.K. government scientists say more-transmissible #B117 coronavirus variant may also increase death rate by 30 per cent, @guardian reporting.Teams compared death rates among those who tested positive for new variant
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
This is bad—Berlin has just put an entire hospital under quarantine lockdown & diverting all patients after *20 patients & staff* tested positive for more infectious #B117 variant of #SARSCoV2
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
C’mon FLORIDA! I don’t wanna be that epidemiologist dude who has to remind @GovRonDeSantis daily that he has a civic responsibility to stop the outbreak of #B117 in his state
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🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉
Billius27
on the Toronto area SGTF (S-Gene Target Failure) study to detect B117 (UK variant). It looked at 11,485 positive tests over Dec 16 to Feb 3 and found 448 had
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
1. If you thought yesterday's more than 4,400 deaths will be the worst of the American pandemic, or the previous >300,000 cases in a day, you're not paying attention. We're
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
WORRISOME MATH—#B117 variant is so crazy: what happens if there are just 10 cases now, & new #B117 has 50% transmissibility? 1000+ daily cases on Mar232000+ daily cases on
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
I’ve written a lot in the last two weeks about #B117 and the uncertainty surrounding its exact effects. So let me talk about something that we can be pretty certain
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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
ashishkjha
Am optimistic about late spring and summerBut concerned about next couple of monthsSo let's chat whyB117 – the UK variantIts here and spreading quicklyGreat new analysis by @k_g_andersen et al
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
BEAST MODE—the new B117 is a beast of a #SARSCoV2 variant. The variant adds ~ 0.4-0.7 to the R (Reproductive number). What could keep in check via containment, R
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
And now for the bad news. *sigh*It looks like #B117, the more transmissible variant first detected in England, has now picked up the E484K mutation as well. That is the
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Outbreak of #B117 despite full vaccinations at a nursing home. 14 residents at a nursing home have tested positive for B117 variant, despite all having 2 doses of
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Mark Shrime, MD PhD
markshrime
Let’s talk about why we can’t just rely on vaccines to end this #pandemic, now that the new variants are around A thread based on this paper from the
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
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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Jules Shen
jules__shen
[1/n] Excellent work by @_nickdavies & @cmmid_lshtm. Personal initial policy & econ implications, to be quantified:1. £ for all-UK ~6wk T4 *now* +/- temp borders < £ undetected B117 proliferation2.
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Ireland & N. Ireland are in a serious #COVID19 crisis. Cases surging past . Ireland also has increased presence of the B117 variant—now found in **25%** of cases that
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