#Variant

Eran Segal

segal_eran

Israel explained:1.7M vaccinated (20% of pop.)>70% of all 60+ years oldCurrently a major surge, but we project a plateau in critically ill in a weekDespite all this, Israel tightened its

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

We are in a race against time. Not enough will be vaccinated in time if we let the UK variant loose in Ontario. It is ravaging Europe now We need

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

This study needs to be interpreted with an abundance of caution, given we already have real-world evidence that contradicts this. Results heavily dependent on assumptions- & these don't account for

David Dowdy

davidwdowdy

A counterpoint to the alarm bells that are sounding over novel SARS-CoV-2 variants.Is it possible that we are misinterpreting differences in human behavior as differences in the biological fitness of

Scott Beasley

SkyScottBeasley

Early trial data of AstraZeneca vaccine shows limited efficacy against mile disease due to the South Africa variant BUT they don’t know yet if that means it will also be

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Boris Johnson’s answer to this question demonstrates he is ill equipped to handle this crisis. I don’t know a single public health expert, scientist or clinician who has advocated

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

I wrote yesterday about the spread of the UK B117 variant based on data up to the 13th Dec warning that it could become dominant across much of the UK

F I S T O N M A H A M B A

FMLarousse

#RDC/#Ebola: "Nous avons reçu les résultats préliminaires du séquençage des échantillons du premier cas confirmé d'Ebola du douzième épisode. Le virus qui circule actuellement a été identifié comme un virus

Christine Van Geyn

cvangeyn

Our Charter explicitly protects the right of Canadians to enter, remain in and leave Canada. Imposing these quarantine prison hotels is a clear violation of the right of Canadians to

HermisHuman

Andy_Redd

The South African serology results from the @Novavax vaccine trial drastically need more clarification. From the protocol posted in their Phase 2 results it appears they used an in-house ELISA

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

Bad news. The day before yesterday, we had confirmation of 3 new variants of concern in the US. As of yesterday, we now have 4. Three of the 4 variants

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Breaking—UK VARIANT MAPPED:We have now a detailed map of the likely spread of the VUI-202012/01 #SARSCoV2 variant among *63,000 positive #COVID19 cases throughout England*!All thanks to a brilliant stroke

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

At this point, the countries with most genomic data to analyze spread of the variant virus belonging to https://cov-lineages.org B.1.1.7 lineage or @nextstrain clade 20I/501Y.V1 are the UK, Denmark and

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

The new variant B.1.351 is evading immunity, infecting ppl already vaccinated w AZ vaccineI’m concerned for the others too since all have very similar design against original SpikeThis should be

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

SA variant and UK variant. Vaccinations and mutations. A thread: The South African variant (B1.351) was recently found in 8 places across the UK with no history of travel to

🌹Dogs4ZeroCOVID🐾

BernieDogs4

The U.K. COVID variant - some tweets in a thread. This does not seem okay. Association between SARS-COV-2 viral load and mutations associated with the new U.K. varianthttps://twitter.com/OxfordViromics/status/1341491766915198980?s=20 "

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