#Variants

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Feeling pessimistic about COVID & 2021? Don't!I'm not. Here's whyWe'll likely have about 400M doses of Moderna/Pfizer by end of JuneEnough to vaccinate 80% of adultsAnd that means a much

Orla Hegarty

Orla_Hegarty

[Thread] Everything we need to know to halt spread of #Covid19 is hiding in plain sight at this NPHET briefing ‘7 things we ~could learn~ if we looked harder’ 1/https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0114/1189824-5-things/

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

I understand the AB lab info system data stream for variants is now built which ought to help with tracking results without so much laborious low tech tracking - it

Samuli Ripatti

samrip

How do #breastcancer susceptibility genes, polygenic risk score (PRS) and family history impact the risk of breast cancer over the life course?With @ninjmars, we tested this in @FinnGen_FI in 120,000

Sam Freedman

Samfr

Last week I did a round-up thread on COVID stats/reports which people seemed to find useful so I thought I'd make it a weekly thing... Positive news first. Lockdown continues

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

New coronavirus infections are decreasing and 14 million people in the UK have received one vaccine dose. But the sitrep is that hospitals are still caring for 24,352 COVID patients

Matthew d'Ancona

MatthewdAncona

Lockdown is tough, but the one thing of which I am certain is that many millions are living in tougher circumstances than I am. Those who can manage have a

Dr N. Brodie נחמה

brodiegal

Mocking double-masking (in the absence of all of us being able to procure and correctly wear a new N-95 every single day) is kind of grotesque. Like asking why all

L for linguist

l_linguist

Ok, let's see if I can summaise this in English. I'll go one tweet at a time and try and pick out the main points, but my English is far

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

"This is a moment for all of us to reflect on the toll the pandemic has taken, the progress we have made, the lessons we have learned and what we

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Phase 3 data from the Sputnik V vaccine is out. ~92 efficacy. Even though we won't get this vaccine here in the US, it's still great news. 1. We need

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

“Some countries in Europe, Africa and the Americas are seeing spikes in cases with multiple factors driving transmission risk”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser. “At present, there is immense pressure

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Hi Matthew, I'm a cancer biologist, and we use the evolutionary model every day to understand cancer progression at the cellular level.Inherited changes in tumor cells produce populations that diversify

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

We found the same #SARSCoV2 mutation at position 677 in Spike has appeared at least 7 times in US-focused clusters in the past few months. What have we seen, &

Elise Thomas

elisethoma5

.@AlbertYZhang and I looked into a conspiracy theory involving Bill Gates, microchips, vaccines and the Mark of the Beast, as a case study for how conspiratorial narratives are proliferating online

Just An Ordinary Bloke

Unusual_Times

A Laymans Guide to Mutations & Variants.I think we can beat covid in the UK if we really try. It's NOT endemic it's too young and it is still spreading

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