#Sarscov2

There’s a lot of concern and confusion right now about the new #sarscov2 variant identified in UK. I’ve spent today and yesterday talking to a dozen people working on this.
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What if 2m/6ft is not enough? I'm concerned our 'opening' guidelines & restrictions may not be considering airborne microdroplet transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 sufficiently. What does that mean?Let's talk. (Over
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1/ The things we don’t yet know about the newly discovered sarscov2 variant have been well characterized in a number of places, by a number of excellent people. My favorite
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CRUSH VIRUS NOW OR ELSE WE ARE SCREWED: Denmark’s CDC thinks new B117 #SARSCoV2 variant is so much more contagious (R +0.4 to +0.7) & inevitable that **if any country
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BREAKING—95%—new data from Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine shows 95% efficacy & is “100% effective” in preventing severe illness, says AZ CEO. That’s on par w/ Moderna & Pfizer. No official data yet,
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BREAKING—South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford #COVID19 vaccine on Sunday after evidence emerged that it did not protect participants from mild or moderate illness caused by the #B1351
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Let's analyze the dialysis case from yesterday. We need to know : a) the SAR (Secondary Attack Rate) of COVID19 for household transmission (pt had largely sheltered in, so could
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1/It's the eve of provincial announcements on schools reopening for in-person instruction.Households are under stress and experts are divided on whether schools are unicorns or infernos.Everyone wants to do right
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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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We mapped how all mutations to #SARSCoV2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) affect recognition by convalescent polyclonal human sera (https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.31.425021v1).Among implications: E484K (South African lineage) worr
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ITALY: Vaccines. Where do we stand? 3dIn the picture the plan of vaccine deliveryNB: vaccine are supposed to reduce severity but we have no data on transmission reduction1/n@CrossWordsCW I circled
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[Etude à découvrir] 10/12 > Les résultats des essais cliniques pour le #vaccin #Pfizer / #BioNtech (BNT162b2) https://bit.ly/3qWFEcA  via @NEJM en anglais #LaMethSci [#Podcast] 11/12 > Radiographie du #coronavirus :
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1. Updated thread on children and #COVID19, summarising the latest research.Summary: schools can only reopen safely if community transmission is low, otherwise outbreaks will occur.#SchoolReopening #edutwitter #edchat #edchatEU #auspol #Sch
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European countries have likely bought time by stopping/restricting UK flights to reduce 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7) import. Vaccine rollouts are progressing, & spring is around the corner.But what do the next few
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THREAD --> This is Natalie. When I first spoke with her, she hadn't left her parents' basement in 43 days because she'd tested positive for #Covid19 twice and feared infecting
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Influenza like illness rates 3 times higher with cloth masks when compared to control group:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577Prof. Carl Heneghan, Oxford University: "The high quality trial evidence for cloth masks suggest the
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