#Mutation

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS WILL DETECT THE VARIANT STRAINS(Has quickly become the most frequently asked question....The epitopes targeted are not under selective immune pressure) A bit more nuance. Most rapid antigen

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

I think it is fair to say now that B.1.1.7 is definitely more transmissible, and possibly more virulent. This also reports cases that have acquired E484K, a mutation found in

Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

DeNovo_Fatima

Lots of buzz on emerging data on what mutations in spike protein could mean for binding of antibodies.Unfortunately some have sensationalized really beautiful data built on years of studying other

Veera M. Rajagopal

doctorveera

This is an ingenious paper. No doubt about that. But it is getting media attention for the wrong reasons. 1/8https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-00755-1 This paper is one of 100s of papers from deCODE

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Hard agree. And if this is useful, let me share something that often gets omitted (not by @kakape).Variants always emerge, & are not good or bad, but expected. The challenge

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

So you may have heard concerns about the mink variant of #SARSCoV2 that was discovered in Denmark and is leading to the decision to cull all farmed minks in the

Dagen McDowell

dagenmcdowell

Twitter has always been a garbage platform with no way to monetize its user base. You voted for Biden? You support higher taxes? That doesn’t tell an advertiser jack about

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Faced w/ new #SARSCoV2 mutation w/ "significantly faster" transmission rates, Boris Johnson tightened #COVID19 restrictions. Chief medical officer Chris Whitty said scientists consider this new strain to *move more

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—A new #SARSCoV2 variant (aka B.1.1.248) identified by Japan in pax from Brazil . This new one has both the more infectious N501Y mutation (not affect vaccine), as well

Thibault Fiolet 🇪🇺

T_Fiolet

BREAKING Le vaccin de Pfizer était efficace contre la mutation N501Y (du variant anglais et Sud Africain ) chez 20 volontairesLe test PRNT montre qu'il n'y a pas de

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

We're going to hear more and more about various COVID mutations in the coming weeks and months. Their names, N501Y, D614G, etc. seem cryptic, and they are, but they are

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

As horrific as #COVID19 looks right now, it is almost certainly about to get worse—“I’m very very concerned that we’ve now gone from a virus that we could control to

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/BREAKING on #SARS_CoV_2 variants: the emerging variants in South Africa and Brazil that harbor the E484K mutation have "greatly reduced susceptibility" to neutralization by polyclonal serum antibodies derived from some

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

DIFFERENCE A VARIANT CAN MAKE: Early in the Oxford-AstraZeneca’s South Africa trial, before #B1351 variant became dominant, the AZ vaccine had a great efficacy of 75% risk reduction of

Someone, Somewhere

CapobiaNB

Info on the MTHFR mutation.My opinion: everyone who is prescribed hormonal birth control should be screened for MTHFR. If you have it, you shouldn’t use hormonal birth control (increases clot

Just An Ordinary Bloke

Unusual_Times

A Laymans Guide to Mutations & Variants.I think we can beat covid in the UK if we really try. It's NOT endemic it's too young and it is still spreading

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