#Variant

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Novavax says its #COVID19 vaccine is 90% effective, but likely only 50% against the #B1351 variant found in South Africa. 50% better than 0%, but clearly we have challenges with

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

CRUSH VIRUS NOW OR ELSE WE ARE SCREWED: Denmark’s CDC thinks new B117 #SARSCoV2 variant is so much more contagious (R +0.4 to +0.7) & inevitable that **if any country

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

The importance of T-cell immunity!A recent study has found that after one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine, patients had a strong T-cell response, and a boosted antibody response after their second

Damian Ratka

DRatka1

A short topic about the French Main Battle Tank Leclerc. First things first. The tank was never called AMX-56. Neither it's Le Clerc. The tank is designated simply as Leclerc

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Outbreak of #B117 despite full vaccinations at a nursing home. 14 residents at a nursing home have tested positive for B117 variant, despite all having 2 doses of

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD HARDER—Vaccine herd immunity is becoming harder. The formula is (1-(1/R0)) depends on virus contagiousness, which #B117 variant is 40-80% higher & will be dominant soon. So instead

Lucy van Dorp

LucyvanDorp

Piecing together what we know of the ‘new #variant’. This has been confirmed by COG-UK (https://tinyurl.com/ybfsqurf ) and PHE (https://tinyurl.com/yacjerx6 ) as a lineage of #SARSCoV2 carrying a set of mutations including

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

The new release of the randomized ONS infection survey shows the advantage of the variant B.1.1.7 strain has evaporated in regions (London, East, Southeast) where it reached greatest prevalence.[R_0 for

Psyber Attack

PsyberAttack

Just ended a 7 day Twitter ban, and this time it was so strict that my timeline and notifications weren't updating Apparently I'm now in the last chance saloon...so if

Cem Karsan 🥐

jam_croissant

1/x So, if you’ve been scratching your head about the recent countertrend DXY strength & wondering if it has legs,& it seems like the cyclical rotation hasn’t been trending as

Daniel Howdon

danielhowdon

What's happened with the new variant btw? Cos I think "70% more transmissible" or anything like is now pretty unsustainable as a claim given that London hit R

Rachel Lavin

RachelLavin

Here's some of the best interactives on the US election for all those nervously scrolling today:This NYT electoral vote counter is unique - just drag the bubble based on your

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

As far as I know, the #SARSCoV2 variant identified by Hancock today is defined by a spike mutation at position 501 N->Y & a double-deletion at positions 69/70.You can see

Kali the Destroyer

kali_destroyr

Remember, after you get your *second* dose of the vaccine, it still takes about 2-3 to develop antibodies. Be safe, keep wearing a mask, social distancing, etc. As for me,

john mcclean : 😷 stay at home 😷

johnmcclean_ie

Manaus has a population of ~2 million.~45,000 are over 70. They have had 4,000 deaths already and are now experiencing a devastating 2nd wave.Ireland has ~450,000 over 70s and the

Matt Raybould

mijr12

1/5 Growing evidence that E484 variants (e.g. SA variant) can largely escape evenly strongly neutralising serum from first wave (in past week, by Andreano et al. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424451v1 and by Greaney

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