#Variant

David W. Higgins

higginsdavidw

Back in November, I outlined how the vaccine rollout should allow for a gradual easing of restrictions during 2021.So much has changed since, so it's time I updated this schedule....[THREAD]1/https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/133

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

I'm honestly at a loss as to understanding what our government is thinking & what evidence they're considering in enacting gravely negligent policies that will almost certainly lead to tens

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

Latest @ICNARC report on intensive care admissions and outcomes has been published. 17,015 patients have been admitted to ICU so far in the second wave, significantly more than the 10,938

Mustafa Hirji

mustafahirji

When the UK reopened from their fall lockdown (graph), cases were still high & variants were able to surge. The UK went back into lockdown within 3 weeks. Germany is

Restrained Elegance

RElegance

Thoughts for 2021 (not exactly cheery I'm afraid).1) Brexit is finally "done" and it's consequences will reverberate through the next decade or more. It is a stupid act of national

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Faced w/ new #SARSCoV2 mutation w/ "significantly faster" transmission rates, Boris Johnson tightened #COVID19 restrictions. Chief medical officer Chris Whitty said scientists consider this new strain to *move more

Mike Buckley

mdbuckley

We're all used to the fact that @BorisJohnson has failed utterly to handle the pandemic, but some stats still shock. Here's mine today - China has recorded 3 deaths per

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

In Europe, schools are closing as studies show schoolchildren can play a significant role in spreading infections 1/https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-schools-are-closing-again-on-concerns-they-spread-covid-19-11610805601?reflink=desktop

Brendan Dickson, MD

histiocytosisX

UNKNOWNS (2020.07.17). Elderly male; rapidly enlarging thigh mass; IHC: (-) desmin, smooth muscle actin, S100, CD34, & panCK Diagnosis? Epithelioid-spindle cells arranged in sheets-fascicles. Abundant amphophilic cytoplasm. Round-ovoid

Eric Billy 🇫🇷🇪🇺

EricBillyFR

Info COVID:L'histoire du variant Marseille4 (pas) très dangereuxOn va parler de la nouvelle fiction marseillaise, ce variant Marseille 4, annoncé en grande pompe par Didier Raoult et relayé comme un

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

It has been a long tiring and, in many ways, terrifying week in the US. The events in DC have nevertheless obscured the growing public health crisis, which even with

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Quick thread on one aspect of vaccination that currently doesn't quite make the headlines but is likely to become very important in the coming months - vaccine reluctance.This different from

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE B.1.1.7 variant #SARSCoV2: Read these 4 key circled sentences from @CovidGenomicsUK on why the mutations are worrisome. Experts don’t think it will strongly affect vaccines, but some

Jane Haynes 🌈⚡️

JaneRockHouse

I spent some time with ICU staff at a city hospital this week and came away amazed at their resilience and furious at all the ways they are being let

Louis Rossouw

lrossouw

SA COVID-19 model updated: I have not tweeted about it in some time. So as a reminder the model is calibrated to 90% of excess deaths from the MRC (up

Dr. Harmit S. Malik

HarmitMalik

Our christmas gift to ourselves this year: @AntoineMolaro's postdoc research paper now published in @PLOSbiology by way of @ReviewCommons with massive assistance from many folks especially @annajwood2 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiolo

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