#Variant

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

The trend fit respiratory viruses is to become more transmissible but less lethal over time. Viruses which kill their hosts are statistically less selected for in survival terms. While anything

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1. Mask better 2. Distance better 3. Hope no big problem with vaccine production, adverse effects, or variant vaccine escape: by March deaths should decline, by June cases should decline

Prof. Mosa Moshabela

MoshabelaMosa

The Minister @DrZweliMkhize is engaging very comfortably with the science of Covid-19. He's showing a much deeper understanding of the nuances in his articulation. He's even brought together 'competing' scientific

Matthew Willis

NavalAirHistory

When working on my new book 'Mustang: The Untold Story', it became clear that there is an awful lot of confusion about the early marks of North American Mustang/P-51. So

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Dr2NisreenAlwan

1/ SAGE paper on #COVID19 tranmission in children, dated 17 Dec, published 31 Dec. This paper was "approved prioer to the emergence of data on the new variant". It includes

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

I’ve written a lot in the last two weeks about #B117 and the uncertainty surrounding its exact effects. So let me talk about something that we can be pretty certain

Tim Cook

doctimcook

Coughs make aerosolsIt's long been time for ward staff to upgrade to FFP3 around coughing patients and those with COVIDThe urgency for this is dramatically increased by the new variant

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

It has not been a good news day when it comes to vaccines—particularly AstraZeneca—and the B.1.351 variant that arose in South Africa. But buried amidst the bad news of a

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

The new and improved http://CoVariants.org is here! We're hoping to make this a one-stop location to track not only the 'headline' variants, but many different #SARSCoV2 mutations & variants that

PANDA - Pandemics ~ Data & Analytics

PanData19

Out damn spot! 1/12 The President of South Africa appeared on national TV to tell some lies in support of perpetuating destructive Covid malarkey. Out came the old chestnut that

Funmi Iyanda

Funmilola

The ongoing leadership contest in every sphere is for power not purpose. Whoever wins will perform a variant of the same assault on the people that has always been and

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

REINFECTION WARNING from the WHO. “We are now getting reports of people getting reinfected with a new variant—from (#B1351)—suggesting people who’ve had prior infection could get infected again.” says

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A brief summary of the very precarious situation we are in now, and why we have a very narrow window to act in the UK. If we don't act now,

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

WORRISOME: infections in the UK soar with mutant #coronavirus strain B.1.1.7 that appears to spread more easily between people.#B117 strain acquired 17 mutations *all at once* (including 8 in the

Shannon Young

SYoungReports

For example, this timeline slide. Dec 28: Flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City. Dec 29: Flight to Matamoros.GAP: Where did he spend the night of Dec. 28th? How did he

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Much uncertainty around new variant. Large one is why it is more transmissible & how to enhance our public health interventions and advice based on that info. Is it lingering

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.