#Variants

Lauring Lab

LauringLab

It's been great getting to know Gage and Kat through our project together with @dho @tcfriedrich labs. Lost in the "US isn't sequencing enough" articles (which I agree with) are

Paddy Briggs 🇪🇺🌈

PaddyBriggs

Do we learn nothing at all ? We are where we are because of a populist driven desire on the part of our Government to relax restrictions, and not impose

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

COVID Action Group Statement: We Must Adopt a “Zero Covid” Strategy to DefendAgainst new and old Coronavirus VariantsThe recently reported genetic changes to the coronavirus that have been identified in

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

STEMtheBleeding

STEMthebleeding

I'm seeing a lot of people wondering why this vaccine doesn't work against variants, but the mRNA virus shows little to no reduced effectiveness. I thought I'd spend a few

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

With #COVID19 vaccine efficacy of ~95%, I'm looking forward to vaccine distribution in 2021 bringing the pandemic under control. However, I'm concerned that we'll see antigenic drift of SARS-CoV-2 and

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) If we want to generate difficult viral escape mutants in the lab (e.g. for epitope mapping), we subject the virus to low antibody pressure and then slowly move up.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DrSidMukherjee

1/n As we watch NEW strains of COVID emerge, it becomes even more important to get vaccinated. New strains can only emerge as the virus multiplies within hosts. More hosts

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: The British dampened some vaccine joy yesterday with news of a possibly hyper-transmissible variant. How scary is this new variant? Bottomline: Scientists should watch and worry, yes, but the

Paul Romer

paulmromer

On Thursday, @EzraKlein published an important column with discouraging news: the new variants of the corona virus will make it far more difficult to end the pandemic and return to

BK Titanji #ILookLikeAScientist

Boghuma

Every year a vaccine is designed to protect against the 3 or 4 influenza viruses determined by surveillance as most likely to spread & cause illness during the upcoming flu

Dr Marie Casey

marietcasey

At the moment there is a lot of heat and very little light in relation to our Covid response.Can I suggest another way?This is a good time for a rapid

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/BREAKING on #SARS_CoV_2 variants: the emerging variants in South Africa and Brazil that harbor the E484K mutation have "greatly reduced susceptibility" to neutralization by polyclonal serum antibodies derived from some

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Switzerland has now banned flights from the UK - following on from an increasing number of other countries.If the new UK variant may already be in more countries across Europe,

C. Coq-Chodorge

ccoqchodorge

L’interview de JF Delfraissy sur @BFMTV ce soir signe un tournant dans la pandémie de coronavirus. Avec les variants, on est devant « l’équivalent d’une deuxième pandémie » Thread difficile

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

So... there is a worrying “reasonable concern… that the South African #SARSCoV2 variant might be more resistant” to current vaccines, Prof Shabir Madhi, who led trials for Oxford vaccine

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