#Variant

Kyle

DrKyle

The New COVID-19 Variant, explained for curious kids and twitterers.Imagine the virus in the book "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Think of the book cover (pictures and words) as the

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

Three comments:1. If the AZ vaccine can’t stop mild and moderate illness in the South African variant, that’s likely true for the other vaccines too.2. What matters most is stopping

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

If you do one thing today, listen to this episode (#696) of This Week in Virology wherein a group of experts smack down the “British mutant strain” story point by

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

This is criminal negligence. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/minor-sports-now-allowed-to-return-with-restrictions-as-alberta-set-to-lift-some-covid-19-measures-1.5298548 The new variants are quickly replacing the old variant which is waning. Ch

WIRED UK

WiredUK

In each warm body it infects, the virus behind Covid-19 has the potential to change. Most of those changes are slow and inconsequential. But, in some people, the virus hits

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Modelling preprint from LSHTM published showing that in almost all scenarios, opening schools at this point in England without additional mitigation results in R rising above 1, and exponential rises

Robert Peston

Peston

The government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (or Nervtag) has concluded that the new Covid-19 strain may be a bit more lethal than the existing strain. I've

The Sunday Times

thesundaytimes

How worried should we be about the new coronavirus mutation? A thread https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/how-worried-should-we-be-about-the-new-coronavirus-mutation-8h297hhqh?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1608384709

Harry Cole

MrHarryCole

Sir Keir Starmer says again "the new variant was spotted back in September". That is heavily disputed claim... It was spotted in October from a sample taken in September according

Áine O'Toole

AineToole

Updated new-variant SARS-CoV-2 report for 2020-12-30 now available at http://cov-lineages.org/global_report.html.A total of 4,579 B.1.1.7 sequences from 18 countries around the world on GISAID as of this morning. @arambaut @viralverity B.1.

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Modelling evidence (and experience from previous lockdown) suggests that restrictions will not bring R below 1 with the new strain unless we significantly reduce transmission from primary, secondary schools and

Dr Alexandra Phelan

alexandraphelan

A lot of good discussion today about what we know and don't know about the new #SARSCoV2 variant in the UK. But what does this mean (if anything) for government

Petros Ligoxygakis

LigoxygakisLab

The evidence on the new SARS-CoV2 variant considered by NervTag was 1) growth rate from genomic data (increased growth rate); 2) studies of R-values and detection of the variant (suggested

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. If you thought yesterday's more than 4,400 deaths will be the worst of the American pandemic, or the previous >300,000 cases in a day, you're not paying attention. We're

Matt Reynolds

mattsreynolds1

The UK variant may have evolved in just one person, infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus for an unusually long time.So what does this mean for the pandemic, and stopping future

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Lots of new variant news - yes, they are more infectious likely due to higher viral loads in nose/mouth but not more "virulent" (not likely to make people more sick)

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