#Strains

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

My thoughts on the govt announcement yesterday regarding a new viral strain potentially driving an increase in cases in London. The claim, at least from listening to the daily briefing

Matt Garrett

MattGarrett3

The 3 main risks to the vaccines being a panacea narrative has been:1) execution - we got this today2) adoption/usage - ongoing3) a variant strain#3 would be the most shocking.

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

It has not been a good news day when it comes to vaccines—particularly AstraZeneca—and the B.1.351 variant that arose in South Africa. But buried amidst the bad news of a

Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)

ArisKatzourakis

[MEDIUM THREAD] On the topic of covid becoming an endemic virus. You hear this a lot; sometimes in response to critiques against strategies of elimination, sometimes just as a statement

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

Me:

telushk

Fascinating chapter in "Bring The War Home": Returning Vietnam vets formed paramilitary Klan training camps. They then terrorized Vietnamese refugees in the TX Gulf because they were outperforming white fishermen.

Meg Tirrell

megtirrell

Novavax gives us first vaccine efficacy data we’ve seen against B117 (UK) and B1351 (South Africa) variants, from trial results just reported.In UK the news is good: 89% efficacy in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Worrisome new data—new B117 variant is not only more infectious, it’s potentially more infectious in children 0-9 (+24%) and 10-19 (+14%), and less among 60-79, compared to common strains. More

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

So I'm told that there's some confusion going on about what placebos for vaccine trials should be.Let's chat about this one. It's really common to hear from anti-vaccine people that

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Good morning! I have some updates! Preliminary data from our studies indicate our vaccine along with Pfizer’s will likely be effective against the Coronavirus variants and ALL of their associated

Katie Halper

kthalps

Unpopular & cancelable opinion: the DNC types blaming Dem losses on running on "socialized medicine," & "defunding the police" are disingenuous hacks & ideologies pretending to be pragmatic. Nobody ran

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

After many months with little to suggest that SARS-CoV-2 was evolving to transmit more readily or evade immune responses, we are now concerning variants such as B.1.1.7 emerge and spread,

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

3 phases:Winter: ensure NHS doesn’t collapse. Strong restrictions on mixing.Spring: Suppress to low levels & get robust mass testing & supported isolation in place.Summer: Eliminate & protect low prevalence with

jodie

yupfinglas

the covid vaccine hasn’t been subject to less testing and trials than other vaccines. the trials just occurred simultaneously rather than one after the other because they never encountered barriers

Tom Smith

TomSmith_USA

RESISTANCE IS CRITICAL . . . Masks.I thought the req's would end.There is no end. With hyper-sensitive testing. With false-positives. With testing for traces of past, "common cold" corona.

Lol 🇪🇺

LolInKent

There is some cautiously optimistic, that’ll possibly turn out to be amazingly good, #beenews today. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Loyal readers may be aware that I’ve had

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