#Variant

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Happy Monday! This is truly the worst time & normal to feel low- new variant spreading quickly, depths of winter, NHS under pressure. But we will get through with

Janekin24 #KBF #UsForThem

janekin24

If we care we must not send our children back to schools with the enforced testing and mask wearing in the freezing classrooms. It is not education. It is child

Julia Belluz

juliaoftoronto

Have a new story out about the scientific reasons why the UK (B.1.1.7) and South Africa (501Y.V2) variants are so deeply concerning, even for vaccine protection. A short to summarize:https://www.vox.com/22213033/covid-19-mutation-variant-va

Tom Newton Dunn

tnewtondunn

The PM's Covid-O committee meets on Tuesday afternoon to agree enforced hotel quarantining for arrivals in the UK - British and foreign - for 10 days. A huge move that

Adam squires

adsquires

The new COVID variant and how we should behave to be safe. tl;dr: it hasn't acquired resistance to anything; soap, distancing, masks and fresh air all still work; but we

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

My interview today with @NIAbbot on @LBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspfNPhWYq8With a short thread below on the points I made in the interview. The vaccine rollout is a great achievement - we are

Yvette Cooper

YvetteCooperMP

Asked PM at #LiaisonCommittee what Govt was doing to stop new South Africa variant spreading in the UK. Asked why people have been able to travel from SA to UK

Dr Raghib Ali FRCP(UK)

drraghibali

Many thanks to @NickFerrariLBC @LBC for inviting me on this morning to discuss the impact of the new variant on hospitals and the calls for closing schools and a national

Alex Macheras

AlexInAir

Woah — immense overcrowding at Dubai Airport (which probably has more UK ‘Tier 4 lockdown’ residents there than in Tier 4 itself) Note: While 50+ countries have cut air travel

Alex Kettwich

michigan_onesie

A THREAD for Michigan fans that don’t understand the sports shutdown:Michigan athletics has been paused for 2 weeks because 5 athletes (so far) have tested positive for the B.1.1.7 strain

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

There is a lot of confusion about the efficacy of AstraZeneca/ChAdOx1 vaccine against COVID19 due to B.1.351 / 501Y.V2 - summarising the results of phase 1b/2a double-blind randomized trial conducted

Hanna Faghfoury

HannanehF

5 hot tips for my non-geneticist friends sending genetic testing. To access the full nerdery, gifs, and clumsy analogies, read thread below. Don't send a panel after an exome.

Aleksandr Lakuntcov

HalfWiccan

Handy guide how to tell apart the most common fighters of the Su-27 family, that are currently operated by the Russian Air Force.At the moment, the only early Su-27 variant

Łukasz Przybyszewski

Przybyszewski_L

The delivery of Fateh-110 was a consequence of the 33-day war. Fateh-110 and it’s AShM variant were most probably delivered some yrs ago. Possibly during #Obama or #Trump administration. No

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—new #B117 variant & vaccine data from research lab shows mutations in B117’s spike protein yields a ~3.8x reduction in efficacy of vaccine-generated neutralization antibodies compared to wildtype (WT)

Cynthia Mulligan

CityCynthia

Premier Ford says yesterday more than 15 thousand people were vaccinated but are running out of vaccines. He says if Federal Government doesn't get more to the province hospitals will

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