#Variant

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Dr2NisreenAlwan

1/ According to the ONS prevalence survey, symptoms of the 'new' B.1.1.7 #COVID19 variant don't seem massively different to the 'old' variant. Cough, sore throat, fatigue & muscle ache a

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Why it is time (never too late) to get super-serious1. Holiday surge after holiday surge is small potatoes compared with a superspreader strain. B.1.1.7 is here,

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

Positive swabs down 400 on yesterday to 3457 but thats on 5500 fewer tests & positivity has increased to 15.1% from 13.7%. 22,874 tests done which is still a lot

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system

Tom Wenseleers

TWenseleers

More infectious SARS-CoV2 VOC 202012/01 strain is spreading at a similar rate across the whole UK. Clearly not a founder effect. >90% of all infections will be by this strain

Rebecca Morelle

BBCMorelle

Very good news on #Novavax vaccine in UK trial - reduced efficacy in South Africa (50-60%) not so great news (1) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55850352 Interesting as this vaccine trial was able to

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

The new #SARSCoV2 variant we identified recently, 20A.EU1, has jumped to New Zealand a few times (& been caught in quarantine) - but this interesting preprint shows how it seems

Meaghan Kall

kallmemeg

New Technical Briefing @PHE_uk published 2pm Update on the ‘UK variant’ - VOC/202012-01 Still very much concentrated in London, South East and East of England. Even in London more

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

Proud to have two stories on the homepage today — both, sadly, about the failures of leadership in coping with this pandemic. The first, with my colleagues @mattapuzzo and @selamgkidan

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Wondering whether the national COVID data is just a blip or something more substantive?I think there is something good going onCases across the U.S. really are falling...and while its only

Atul Gawande

Atul_Gawande

I know COVID seems like it is subsiding. But the B117 variant is spreading. What we do now to stop it determines whether it takes over and fills hospitals again

Anupam Singh

anupampom

Very important study with implications 4 India1. Novavax Vaccine (being manufactured by COVOVAX by Serum Institute) has 89% efficacy in UK trial ( normal and UK Variant ) n 60%

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Detailed assessment of the new UK #SARSCoV2 variant by @WHO scientific team: https://www.who.int/csr/don/21-december-2020-sars-cov2-variant-united-kingdom/en/Key points in thread. 2/ The @WHO takes a global view:"One of the mutations i

Hilda Bastian, PhD

hildabast

Preprint of the South African phase 1b/2 trial for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is online. Primary efficacy analysis is for 2,026 people who weren't infected with HIV (there was also a

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀

edrybicki

The Guru Alan Cann said in his most excellent textbook that "“Mutant,” “strain,” “type,” “variant,” and even “isolate” are all terms used rather loosely to differentiate particular viruses from each

Austin Statesman

statesman

BREAKING: A new and more contagious coronavirus variant has been identified in Texas for the first time, health officials say 1/https://atxne.ws/3ooHIs5 The adult male Harris County resident had no history

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