#Variants

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DrSidMukherjee

1/n Please pay attention, please. I'm afraid that we are falling behind in this COVID race. There are at least 4 variants of concern: variants arising in London, Manaus, Japan

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Hancock “It’s because of the new variants that we have to be particularly careful about international travel. The vaccine program is going well. We know that vaccines work against the

Gondal

XGONDALX

TEXTUAL VARIANTSMany textual variants can be found in different modern Qurans. They vary from disappearing phrases, additional letters or different verse numberings. 6:63, 9:107, 18:36, 26:217, 40:26, 42:30, 43:71, 57:24,

David Fisman

DFisman

Some very simple models of covid case trajectories in Toronto based on decomposition of old variants and novel variants (b117 right now). The dashed lines are forward projections. Solid lines

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)

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Israel has now officially admitted it does not have a clue why its outbreak remains out of control six weeks after vaccinations began. It continued to blame “variants” -

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan?No?How about one from South Korea?No?Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam?Of course notBecause these places haven't given rise to scary variantsBut what places have.....has

Matt Zefferman

matt_zefferman

Epidemiology question. When epidemiologists estimate "transmissibility" of a viral variant, are they estimating the observed transmissibility or estimating something causal about the mutation? @CT_Bergstrom @noamross Imagine a vir

Anna Mouser

annacmouser

A thread on variants for non scientists - what are they, why do they happen, what does it mean for the pandemic? 1/7 Very simply - variants are what happens

Ben

bennyoutrageous

For my non-scientist followers: this is a preprint, so it hasn’t been reviewed yet. But essentially the vaccines, both Pfizer and Moderna are significantly less effective against these highly transmissible

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

This is irresponsible & negligent- we haven't learned anything from past mistakes. Letting a big wave of infection flow through the UK would mean hundreds of thousands of people with

Vinod Scaria

vinodscaria

Our recent preprint of genetic epidemiology of #immune #escape variants from global #SARSCoV2 genomeshttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.424332v1 A number of genetic variants in #SARSCoV2 are associated with immune escape - a

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A few people have asked "do new variants mean vaccines won't work"? Important to avoid simple categories of 'works' and 'doesn't work'. Some variants may alter the extent of protection

Penny Daflos

PennyDaflos

COVID variants are a major concern for health officials right now -- not to mention the rest of us.I'm seeing a lot of ?s about how BC is testing for

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

It’s important to remember that coronaviruses mutate all the time. And, the more they spread, the more mutations can happen. That is why simply reducing transmission is the key to

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: Some new variants of the coronavirus may pose unexpected challenges to the immune system, even in those who have been vaccinated, according to two new studies, posted online Tuesday

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