#Variant

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Outbreak of 69 #COVID19 cases in 2 schools, plus 20 at daycare centers in one Danish city—all #B117. “Something going on with the infection of [ variant] #B117 among children

Paul Waugh

paulwaugh

Asked by @BBCRadio4 Broadcasting House if this Xmas lockdown was inevitable, NERVTAG member Prof Edmonds says "No...it wasn't clear what the cause was [of rising cases in SEast]. I think

RobbieRescue

RobAdam74497148

1. To all you out there calling for Canada to close it's airports, be careful. Here's why: A. First and foremost, we will become prisoners in our country, like the

Chelsea Palmer

chiselinc

Great to see that @kermankohli who used to be a promising lil wunderkind writer has gone mad with fake power & is enacting microcosmic defi fascism lolGreat job kid, really

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Another bright day in London but with a pretty grim outlook here short term - but better mid to long term for COVID. Context: I am an expert in human

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

The interesting comparison to me is not between JNJ's vaccine and the RNA vaccines, but between it and WKV (inactivated virus) vaccines, because they are similar in efficacy. JNJ has

Ryan Hisner

LongDesertTrain

The worst-case scenario, while unlikely, is plausible & terrifying: rampant reinfection, increased disease severity (no sign yet but higher viral loads suggest the possibility), & greatly reduced vaccine efficacy against

DJ Wilton

yarnfiend

1/ You know in the disaster movie when a headline on the news in the background is meant to foreshadow how oblivious the characters are to looming catastrophe? Yeah, that.

🇿🇲 Naeem Dalal, MD #FeelBetterSoon

NaeemDalal

A surge of cases most of us are aware off, #ZedTwitter, Let's break it down from the Zambia Medical Association.- Covid surge alarms the medical profession. - Up to date

Andrew Lover

AndrewALover

New UK strain of #COVID19 (B1.1.7) Suggested that it's 70% more transmissible. What if this is a "side effect" of massive levels of testing? Surely mass testing/diagnostics can't drive

Kaiju

kaijubushi

We can make new sports. "Stickly" - Two men go into the woods and are forced to fight to the death with tree branches and rocks. "Juggaroo"3 men in parking

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the question of how mink outbreaks can impact vaccines, antibody therapeutics, or diagnostics. How realistic is this concern?The idea is that SARS2 spreading and adapting in large populations of

Giorgio Gilestro

giorgiogilestro

There are two issues with the English variant, as it is now referred. One issue is "what it could do" and the other issue is "what it could represent". They

alice maz

alicemazzy

"reads a lot of wikipedia" is probably rightly a good proxy for "smart curious generalist" but being now having to actually learn a scientific discipline enough to follow current research

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

New article on UK Variant: Multiple analyses confirm40-70% faster transmission (ratio 1.4-1.8) during time of high levels of social distancing.larger share of under 0-9 and 10-19 year oldsvery significant harmful

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

The new “Kent” strain of SARS-CoV-2 (officially named VUI 202012/01 for Variant Under Investigation, year 2020, month 12, variant 01) was identified as have multiple spike protein mutations1/n These include

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