#Variant

So Ireland just reopened way too much too quickly over Christmas, even relative to the UK.("Mobility is average of google work/transit/retail/grocery and negative of home category")https://twitter.com/alchemytoday/status/134679728
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Disgraceful for anyone to politicise such a critical issue. Sh @ShashiTharoor, Sh @yadavakhilesh & Sh @Jairam_Ramesh don't try to discredit well laid out science-backed protocols followed for approving #COVID19vaccines Wake
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Really interesting data coming out of latest report on Oxford/AZ vaccine efficacy trials (another one!).A little on this.#COVID19 #CovidVaccine https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3779160 What did they find?Trial looked at p
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NEW - Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc announces that anyone coming into to Canada will require a negative covid PCR test 3 days before arriving in Canada #cdnpoli Public Safety
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A short good news thread. Happy Friday.(1/5) Zoe Covid app has estimated daily new cases have fallen to 49k, nearly 30% below the recent peak.(2/5) The 7 day average of
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In his recent article, @cjsnowdon claims that England's November lockdown was a good example of lockdown effectiveness. Let’s look at that claim using the ONS death-by-date registration data which have
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I've just done 5 BBC radio interview in a row. Each one started with the question: what shall we do about all these people breaking the rules? I said:1. Public
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Mega thread on seismic few days of the pandemic in Ireland. The govt implemented level five.More info about the UK variant.And NPHET held one of the most important briefings in
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It sounds like there's tentative evidence that the new variant does transmit more rapidly.This is one of the reasons we should take strong action early. Mutations are a known risk
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THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS.Indicates a SERIOUS FAILURE of authorities to protect our public health and economy.The UK B117 variant has been detected by Prof @GMalavige team in #lka community
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Deep breath, my views on the SARS CoV2 Mutation story in London/South East. It's a fast moving story (at least for phylogeography); I'm a one step-away from experts, aiming here
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New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and
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A Laymans Guide to Mutations & Variants.I think we can beat covid in the UK if we really try. It's NOT endemic it's too young and it is still spreading
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Just a few days before Christmas, all the strains of coronaviruses had an urgent top-secret board meeting. Important matters needed to be discussed. Crucial decisions to be made. On the
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The new strain is a real threat. The article is by Prof McNally, Prof of Microbial Genomics who discovered it. He's very concerned. Please read it.Then read this short thread
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But I will note that mutations happen all the time. The more infections, the more opportunities to explore the the space of possible mutations. Basically you wouldn't have expected this
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