#Variant

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

STUNNING—South African’s CDC has made a sobering declaration:“We now know that mutations (K417N & E484K) have allowed #SARSCoV2 to become resistant to antibody neutralization.”“Blood samples from *1/2 tested showed all

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

3 phases:Winter: ensure NHS doesn’t collapse. Strong restrictions on mixing.Spring: Suppress to low levels & get robust mass testing & supported isolation in place.Summer: Eliminate & protect low prevalence with

Dr. Kiki Sanford

drkiki

Are there new strains of the COVID-19 virus being talked about? Yes.Before you get concerned, let's clear a couple of things up... Viruses are made of genetic material - DNA

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

C’mon FLORIDA! I don’t wanna be that epidemiologist dude who has to remind @GovRonDeSantis daily that he has a civic responsibility to stop the outbreak of #B117 in his state

Emma Thomson

emcat1

1/7 This article reflects how scientific collaboration is working across international borders with online colleagues that are willing to share their expertise openly. Using the UK's genomic early warning system

Penny Daflos

PennyDaflos

COVID variants are a major concern for health officials right now -- not to mention the rest of us.I'm seeing a lot of ?s about how BC is testing for

Biohospitalix

BioHospitalix

Le gouvernement vient de faire paraître un DGS urgent sur les variants Anglais / Sud Africains et Brésiliens.L'inquiétude n'est plus trop sur l'anglais mais sur les deux suivants.Comme je vous

Chris Hopson

ChrisCEOHopson

23/31 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Speed at which covid transmission & hospital admissions slow down is key. Some evidence that increases in rate of infection starting to slow in parts of

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I’ve been saying since February that we can’t afford to ‘live with this virus’. Everything that’s happened was predictable and predicted by many scientists. Mutations were to be expected.

Dr. Monica Malta PhD (she/her)

MonicaMalta7

Recombination: A Covid Superpower?An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days. When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR

Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask, Scan QR Codes

marcdaalder

#BREAKING Ministry of Health says genome sequencing has linked one of yesterday's unlinked cases to a different variant of the virus than the current cluster. This variant was present in

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

New SARS-CoV-2 variant will outrun best control US states achieved in 2020. W/out rapid action we'll lose race b/w vaccination & virus by much more than we are now. Much

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

So a lot of concern about this report in the @globeandmail that people are getting infected with B.1.1.7 in the course of a few minutes. This might be a good

Peter Cowan

PeterCBC

There are now conversations about entry testing now that they're dealing with a new variant.So far the province has resisted entry testing, even as the federal government has embraced it

Barbara Larochelle

BarbLarochelle

Shandro is supposed to be at today’s covid update. He’s not usually as late as Kenney. Shandro’s lecture today is on virus variants. He says the things that we have

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

This is a very major concern. Why reducing community transmission is so important. The more virus circulating, under immune pressure, the more likely it is to mutate, evolve and change.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/18/exclusive-b

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