#Variant

✨⚔️Lissa Harris ⚔️✨

lissaharris

A new “USA variant” appears to be emerging. I hate to say it, but I’ve been expecting this.The US has more than enough rampant community transmission to provide an ideal

CE Bick

CarolynBick

BREAKING: @GovInslee has announced that King County and a few others in two of the state's eight regions are eligible to move to Phase 2 in the state's reopening plan.

aHEMagain Actual

aHEMandias

Correlation isn't causation. Increased detection of #COVID19 Variant Under Investigation (VUI-202012/01) is occurring at same time as a general surge in coronavirus infections in UK. IMO it's premature to claim

Jonathan Cedernaes

JCedernaes

A rather new #SARSCoV2 variant B.1.525 has been identified in some countries, e.g. England & the U.S.Id dates in photo below from https://cov-lineages.org/global_report_B.1.525.html.There is however no evidence so far that

Jane Merrick

janemerrick23

NEW statement from chief medical officer Chris Whitty: “no current evidence” to suggest new variant causes greater mortality but “urgent work” is underway to confirm this Whitty statement in full

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ The Denmark variant story was pointed out by several people as being quite concerning- this line struck me - "Cases involving the variant are increasing 70 percent a week

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

In London, SE and East of England the new variant was a small proportion of overall infections until end Nov, when it started taking off. Its rapid spread and dominance

Matthew Thompson

mattuthompson

The UK is taking action against new variants. Closing borders. Surging testing. And yet the impression from last night’s presser was that the South African variant wasn’t the most pressing

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

A quick thread on the new variant, pulling together information from news sources, twitter, genomic databases, and word from well-placed peers.https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1340263541786501120 The new variant in the UK consists

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

With data that has emerged in the last week, I'm now 80-90% convinced that infections by the UK variant virus (Pangolin lineage B.1.1.7, @nextstrain clade 20B/501Y.V1) result in, on average,

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

This was in yesterday's Globe, rapid spread of the UK variant with just a few minutes of contact. The 15 mins/2 meter distancing rule won't work when a virus

Psyber Attack

PsyberAttack

Let's talk about the South African variant and the government's "surge testing" response, now we know that's all they're going to do about it...1/ This thread deserves a soundtrack, so

Michael Donnelly

donnellymjd

The latest preprint analysis of the B117 variant has this variant becoming dominant in the US in March. That's similar to my forecasts, though I don't think this analysis has

Dr Alexandra Phelan

alexandraphelan

I disagree with folks dismissing the implications of the UK variant of concern. While individual behaviors to avoid transmission may not change, the impact at the population level is serious:

Paul Waugh

paulwaugh

Hancock says so far it seems vaccine will still work on this variant of the virus. Areas going into Tier 3 from Weds: Greater London; south and west of Essex;

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—“New variant" (mutation) of #SARSCoV2 has been identified, believed to be causing faster spread, UK Health Secretary said. Its spread is growing faster than existing variant, w/ over 1,000 cases

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