#Variant

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

1/ The ONS infection survey has come out, and the graph below has led some people to speculate that B.1.1.7 isn't more transmissible any more. Unfortunately I don't think we

Mia Malan

miamalan

[Thread] Great visualisation by @media_hack of the daily confirmed #COVID19SA cases since March and how the number of cases changed during different levels of #lockdown. See the sharp increase in

Prof. Mosa Moshabela

MoshabelaMosa

It's not a new strain, only a variant. It's not a second wave, but a second surge. They are not non-pharmaceutical interventions, but behavioural, social, economic, environmental interventions etc. But

Jeffrey Duchin, MD

DocJeffD

Straight Talk About the New Variant COVID-19 Strain. As much as I regret saying it just when so many need & deserve a break, the new variant COVID-19 strain is

Al Jazeera English

AJEnglish

Thread As new coronavirus strains emerge and infect more people, questions loom over the effectiveness of vaccines.Here’s what you need to know about the most concerning COVID-19 variants 1-

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ Read this. This is "global health"? This is our "solidarity"? This is extractive.Vaccines produced in South Africa & tested on South Africans are then deemed safe, & first given

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

@JuliaHB1 please ask @carlheneghan 1) Has the asymptomatic spread theory upon which lockdowns were justified been supported? 2) What were the results of the vaccine animal trials?3) What are the

Zeke Gleichgerrcht, MD, PhD

e_gleich

Does anyone else have an EEG finding that instantly brightens their day? Bc I just saw both 14 Hz and 6 Hz variants of ctenoids back to back and I

Sara Mauskopf

sm

0/ I usually do these on Fridays but I've been on vacation (aka taking care of 3 kids fulltime) for the past 1.5 weeks and a lot of news has

Irene Tosetti

itosettiMD_MBA

COVID-19 in Africa: A pair of studies lays out sobering COVID-19 data for Africa, and for Zambia in particular. In The BMJ, researchers collected postmortem nasopharyngeal samples from nearly 400

Mia Malan

miamalan

[Thread] 1. NEW Early data (not yet peer reviewed) shows the #AstraZeneca #CovidVaccine, that SA will start to administer this month, doesn't appear to offer protection against mild/moderate disease caused

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

As you may know, today the newest COVID variant was detected in the U.S. I am resposting this in order to combat misinformation on what you need to know about

Infectious Disease Ethics

ID_ethics

The underlying problem not being talked about:There is no simple way of measuring transmissibility of a strain independent of environmental factors (winter) and social factors (degree of interaction)Both R and

Iain Mathieson

mathiesoniain

Two comments on the claim that the chr3 COVID risk factor is introgressed from Neanderthals: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.03.186296v1.full.pdf 1. The haplotype certainly looks Neanderthal, but the indel that is the lead v

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BAD CORONAVIRUS VARIANT DATA—Folks, the B117 #SARSCoV2 variant from is a dangerous *hellish beast*. This new UK data shows attack rates (% exposed who get infected) of B117 vs

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BEAST MODE—the new B117 is a beast of a #SARSCoV2 variant. The variant adds ~ 0.4-0.7 to the R (Reproductive number). What could keep in check via containment, R

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