#Variant

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

I know that some people have concerns after the 1st case of variant transmission in schools was identified yesterday. This is understandable. We are being extremely cautious to limit any

John Drury

ProfJohnDrury

1/6Short thread on relationship between rising infections/new variant, public behaviour, and policy announcementstldr: Public behaviour really matters in mitigating infection spread; but it's not only behaviour that matters, since behav

Jan Jekielek

JanJekielek

I've been listening to a reading of @AI_Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. This book is so powerful, so timeless, so important, with some much intellectual fodder for today.Many have heard, "The

Gayle Smith

GayleSmith

The fact that new #COVID19 variants are spreading to the US & other countries is both extremely concerning & tragically unsurprising.The world needs a global strategy to combat this global

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Why a SARS-CoV-2 variant that's 50% more transmissible would in general be a much bigger problem than a variant that's 50% more deadly. A short thread... 1/ As an example,

Alex Selby

alexselby1770

Here (a few tweets down) is a model of the prevalence of B.1.1.7 based on the breakdown of PCR tests by genes N, OR and S. This follows the ONS

François Rincon

jaztrophysicist

Lots of chatter about children potentially more at risk of new covid variant, and impact of delaying second vax doses. Both appear to be not yet entirely settled, tricky scientific

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

It’s becoming clearer that one main hypothesis that scientists are looking at with B.1.1.7 is whether its advantage could be that it is better at infecting children. There are a

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

This is bad—Berlin has just put an entire hospital under quarantine lockdown & diverting all patients after *20 patients & staff* tested positive for more infectious #B117 variant of #SARSCoV2

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

BAD NEWS: 2 cases of a new "more transmissible" #coronavirus variant linked to #SouthAfrica identified in the UK.This new variant appears to have *mutated further* than the new B.1.1.7 variant

Yvette Cooper

YvetteCooperMP

Given the very serious concerns about the South African variant - both how infectious it is, and on the vaccine effectiveness - why isn’t Govt already taking much stronger border

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

The evidence is in, and the UK variant does appear to be of great concern. The viral load of infected people is higher, and it seems to be about 50%

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Earlier when asked about why the govt didn't act earlier the PM said “I think we were told about the new variant and the way it was taking off on

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

56%—that the increased transmission of the B.1.1.7 variant vs common strain from new study. Researchers warn that the #SARSCoV2 variant is so contagious that new control measures, including closing

Laura Lopez Gonzalez

LLopezGonzalez

Scientists confirm AstraZeneca #COVID19vaccine shows no significant reduction in mild to moderate #COVID19sa in South Africa against new variant but the jab could still show efficacy against serious cases of

Dr Zweli Mkhize

DrZweliMkhize

We have convened this public briefing today to announce that a variant of the SARS-COV-2 Virus- currently termed 501.V2 Variant has been identified by our genomics scientists here in South

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