#Variant

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On Thursday, Public Health Ontario released a major study revealing that out of 1,880 positive #COVID19 samples collected on just one day, Jan. 20, 5.5% were confirmed to be

Kit Yates

Kit_Yates_Maths

Watching the PM on Marr.Marr: “SAGE suggested you won’t be able to keep on top of cases if you keep schools open “BJ: “Well SAGE suggested we take tougher measures,

non podhoretz

crookedroads770

Yesterday I overheard my two year old son saying “Are you sure this is a good idea” and my five year old son replying “Trust me” and I have never

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

We’re in a new year and we have also entered a new phase of this pandemic. So I thought I’d start off the new year with a quick catch-up thread

Shashank Joshi

shashj

A very good piece on the new variant. "Scientists, meanwhile, are hard at work trying to figure out whether B.1.1.7 is really more adept at human-to-human transmission—not everyone is convinced

sucks to your ASMR

grnpointer

Since we are posting our favorite @nyrb books: Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. "In them was the place they were swimming to, and at the end of their swimming it

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ Novavax UK first: ~90% protection again any symptomatic COVID-19. And that high level of protection was accomplished under conditions of very intense community transmission in the UK, which is

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Here is Gavin Williamson talking this afternoon about the decision on the evening of 14 December to force Greenwich to reopen Schools: "At that stage none of us were aware

Pete Foley

PeteIn280

Further information this week on the South African variant which, along with one of the two Brazilian variants, is of most concern.The South African variant was shown to be resistant

Pete Foley

PeteIn280

Further information this week on the South African variant which, along with one of the two Brazilian variants, is of most concern.The South African variant was shown to be vaccine

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

B.1.1.7 variant first seen in UK will be dominant by end of MarchIf we do our job, we can vaccinate everyone over 65 by then And every teacherAnd all school

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On the same day authorities announced 86 probable cases of the more contagious #COVID19 variants in Quebec, Premier François Legault announced he will reopen movie theatres, public pools and

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

Last COVID thread of the year! First cases are continuing to go up everywhere and we are starting to get past the Christmas testing / reporting drops. Worryingly, new data

Veera M. Rajagopal

doctorveera

This impressive single cell study profiled every stage of beta cell development (from embryonic stem cells to mature beta cells) and beautifully demonstrates that many GWAS identified T2D genes are

Chief Health Officer, Victoria

VictorianCHO

Lots of confusion about quarantine vs isolation. Quarantine = the period when you may be incubating illness or the period following exposure before you may develop illness. This period applies

Patrick W. Watson

PatrickW

In Denmark, where they DNA-sequence *every* positive COVID case, the B117 variant is growing 70% per week, yes, per week, despite strict lockdown.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/uk-variant-covid-denmark/2021/01/22/ddfaf420-5453-

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