#Mutation

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

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

With emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 and initial evidence of antigenic evolution, I've seen comparisons here to seasonal influenza and its rate of evolution. In this thread, I want to ground

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Questions for ministersThere is a much emphasis being placed on the new strain. Scientists better placed to comment on that. Data is uncertain so precautionary principle should kick in and

Cameron Will Be Vaccinated 💉

ScienceManCam

IT'S HOUSEPLANT APPRECIATION DAY Earlier I said I would do a thread on some of my tropical houseplants so here we go!Up first we have this beautiful Philodendron gloriosum

Brian Cox, MD, MAS

Dr_Brian_Cox

1/In 1920, Dr. Otto Warburg wrote the best grant request ever: "Request. I need 10,000 Mark." 2/ The request was granted and in 1924 he decided to thinly cut and

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

WHO: Europe is now the epicentre. More new daily cases than China at peak of their outbreak. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51876784US: Lets panic those Americans into rushing back from Europe, have them randomly

Max Stammnitz

DevilsAdvoMax

Hi Science Twitter!A big shout out to my two fantastic colleagues Young Mi and Kevin, who have just released what is likely the largest tumour phylogeny built to date: the

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Should we give as many people one dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as possible? Or half as many people two doses of vaccine? It’s a data-free zone.https://twitter.com/CitizenCohn/status/1358075667573862401

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

Okay. I can't help it. I'm sick. I'm addicted. I have to do a line-by-line breakdown of The @Australian's mind-blowing editorial. Somebody help me. Rescue me from the abyss. Whisk

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

STUNNING—South African’s CDC has made a sobering declaration:“We now know that mutations (K417N & E484K) have allowed #SARSCoV2 to become resistant to antibody neutralization.”“Blood samples from *1/2 tested showed all

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I find discussions of herd immunity thresholds frustrating. Herd immunity (which I'll define as a current reproductive rate < 1) depends on policy & behavior. It is NOT an absolute

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. The government is making yet another mistake putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket. I talked about this risk of mutation and escape variants in this piece for

Linda Kebbab

LindaKebbab

Cette vidéo c’est l’histoire d’une société française et sa police à bout de souffle. L’histoire d’un homme, un super collègue, de ce lui et des dizaines de milliers de policiers

Elizabeth McKenna

ElizSMcKenna

In honor of the Ham-Wasserman Lecture by Andrew Roberts at #ASH20, I'd like to share some of the key #venetoclax content published in @CD_AACR over the past few years: From

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Here are the heatmaps for Covid detected cases, positivity, hospitalizations, and ICU admissions. This is up to week 52 (21-29 December). This covers Christmas, so data should be interpreted with

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

These are two remarkable virologists: Pyotr (on the left) and Konstantin Chumakov. They are brothers, Pyotr us one year older. Their parents were famous Soviet virologists Mikhail Chumakov and Marina

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