#Variant

Tony Cox

The_Soup_Dragon

MK LHL testing data showing increasing prevalence of H69/V70 variant in positive test data - which is detected incidentally by the commonly used 3-gene PCR test. Numerous other mutations are

Daniel Leifer, MD

LeiferMd

A new pre-print shows just how rapidly the variant COVID strain has become the predominant strain throughout the UK. It can go from minimal prevalence to predominant strain within 1-2

Sandy Macdonald

sandyjmacdonald

The hypothesis that this new variant came about after months of replication and selective pressure in an immunocomprised patient is fascinating for a number of reasons. First, it must have

Brian Wasik

BrianRWasik

Back in May, I was one of many that had a public conservative approach to assessing a variant... that may have seeded with lineages of our reference strain in many

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Suppose we have a SARS-CoV-2 variant that is inherently more transmissible, and another that is more likely to reinfect people who've previously developed immunity. Which will spread more easily? A

George Yarrow

george_yarrow

The new variant of the virus *is* becoming dominant in London & surrounding areas said Sir Patrick Vallance. *Has* become dominant would have been more appropriate (>60%): we now discover

BDM

bdmcclay

ok i will do a one like = one @nyrbclassics recommendation thread until i get bored with this post being the like collectorhttps://twitter.com/bdmcclay/status/1329820460431925251 my personal opinion is that the most

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: The British dampened some vaccine joy yesterday with news of a possibly hyper-transmissible variant. How scary is this new variant? Bottomline: Scientists should watch and worry, yes, but the

Dylan Robertson

withfilesfrom

Scoop: Manitoba probing why it took 13 days to transfer a COVID-19 sample from its provincial lab to the National Microbiology Lab — just 600 metres away.That lag delayed finding

Dr Raghib Ali FRCP(UK)

drraghibali

A thread on some early evidence on the impact of the new COVID variant - increasing cases, increasing hospital admissions but not yet the expected increase in deaths. Is the

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: Some information on the spread of the new Covid variant across England from @ONS infection survey - ONLY goes up to 18th December. We urgently need last week's data.

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Many are interested in using the 69/70 deletion to scan for cases of the new #SARSCoV2 variants.As it can impact some primers (seen as an 'S drop-out' in PCR), it

Nick Davies

_nickdavies

Late last week, it was announced that a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 (VOC 202012/01) was detected and appeared to be spreading rapidly in the south east of England. We analysed

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

No data. Any variant may be able to reinfect people who have already had a previous infection. This is not new. No data it can evade vaccines. But getting vaccinated

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

What makes a “new strain?” A new strain is a virus with a new biological property. Thank you to the #twiv team for explaining it so clearly. A thread. (1/n)https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-696/

Rory Williams

carbonsmart

South Africa breached one million Covid-19 cases three weeks ago, on 27 Dec 2020. In these past three weeks we have seen 33% of all cases recorded in SA since

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