#Mutation

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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1/5 Growing evidence that E484 variants (e.g. SA variant) can largely escape evenly strongly neutralising serum from first wave (in past week, by Andreano et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424451v1 and by Greaney
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Hard to believe but in academic time, fall 2021 is just around the corner. Delays in vaccination program make this extremely challenging for universities, in many ways more challenging than
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Instant laugh guaranteed Sound on 1/n Ok, this tweet raised some comments, let’s address those. 1. Is it funny? I had a good laugh, sorry for those animal lover
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Ok, I wasn't going to say anything about this, but it's clear that this is accidentally misleading people in a way that may cause more covid infections: "Pfizer claimed trials
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I am a genomics researcher and I investigated mutations in more than 50,000 coronavirus genomes so far this year.This new variant has a number of features that could raise concern
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The Sunak moving goalposts story... 1. There was only briefly a goal of simply 'protecting the NHS', and otherwise letting the virus do its work. The March 23 2020 lockdown
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Lobular disease accounts for more than 1 in 10 cases of breast cancer. It is often referred to as the sneaky subtype because it can evade detection. A lot has
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SURGING #B117 WITHIN US—growing 7% per day, doubling every 9.8 days nationally, & expected to become dominant by March 23rd. It is surging fastest in Florida—doubling every 9.1 days. Scientists
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A snowy north London on Sunday afternoon and there was no happier place to be. I joined a small army of around 50 people to help get nearly 2000 people
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A rather new #SARSCoV2 variant B.1.525 has been identified in some countries, e.g. England & the U.S.Id dates in photo below from https://cov-lineages.org/global_report_B.1.525.html.There is however no evidence so far that
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Le coronavirus est-il devenu moins dangereux ? Menace d’un retour de l’épidémie à la rentrée = fake news ? Le gouvernement nous ment-il pour mieux nous contrôler, nous imposer masques
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After 9years of solid courtship and romance! My very close friend and colleague finally proposed to his girlfriend! I was so happy for him and for her Everyone was hyper
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A short thread- Covid & 2021 for Nigeria:Things will get better this year but manage your expectations.Vaccines will be easier than expected to access for the willing - uptake challenges
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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
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Mutation “feat never seen before”...UPDATE on UK strain of #SARSCoV2 & how it evolved so fast:Variant B.1.1.7 (aka VUI-202012-01) has 23 mutations—but acquired suddenly 17 mutations “all at once”—which
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