#Variants

Nick Hudson

NickHudsonCT

A quick summary thread on where we are:1. Public health guidelines, in the WHO's case, refreshed in late 2019, ruled out lockdowns & most of the mandated NPIs being deployed.2.

Dr Helen MacLean

DrHMacLean

Media still don’t get difference b/w 14 day quarantine & isolation. 14 days is for those w/ 1st test -ve & is covid incubation period so must stay 2 wks

Stephen A. Ramsey

stephenaramsey

I respectfully disagree with the claim of @manoliskellis that one should be comfortable putting one's genome on the web if one is comfortable searching the web. US statutory protections against

Ahmad Rajwana

ahmadrajwana

A Thread on Pakistani MangosThere are about 1000 known varieties, ill talk about few grown in Pakistan.Anwar RatolA small sized delight, with an average weight of 180 g; it has

Fredrik Häthén 🏳️‍🌈

FredrikHathen

So, all in all, I'm okay now. A lot better, at least. Mental illnesses SUCK. A lot of us have them, and many - far, far too many - suffer

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Will delaying #COVID19 vaccine doses cause vaccine immune escape?This nice article misses an extremely important part - that unvaccinated ppl too have so called “partial immunity” while infected.Escape from immunity

Vishnu Som

VishnuNDTV

1. So the more infectious South African and Brazilian mutations have been detected in India albeit in very small numbers. Also, 187 UK mutant strain cases so far - all

Charles Wang

charleswangb

Bio is a general purpose technology (GTP) for the 6th technology revolution, following past 5 successive technology revolutions since 1771. 2021 marks the start of the 6th technology revolution. Each

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

I think it is fair to say now that B.1.1.7 is definitely more transmissible, and possibly more virulent. This also reports cases that have acquired E484K, a mutation found in

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

1/ The ONS infection survey has come out, and the graph below has led some people to speculate that B.1.1.7 isn't more transmissible any more. Unfortunately I don't think we

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

We must dramatically reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through adoption of public health measures and getting people vaccinated ASAP. Unfortunately, continued significant transmission is also leading to an increased number

Tyler Shandro

shandro

Alberta has administered over 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses. @AHS_media and our vaccination teams have been doing incredible work to vaccinate Albertans as quickly as possible, but we need more vaccine

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hisevilforest

punctuation and capitalization in fiction are like musical notation, not like cohesive grammar. you're not using it to be correct, you're using it to indicate how your narrative voice should

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

With hospitals overrun & new variants, we *need* to slow spreadWe have 4 ways to do that – testing, masks, distancing & vaccinesAll are being implemented short of their full

Nicky Whiffin

nickywhiffin

**Postdoc & PhD opportunities**Interested in using large genomic datasets to discover and analyse non-coding variants that cause rare diseases? Come work @HumanGeneticsOx @UniofOxfordhttps://www.whiffinlab.org/join-us Please share

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

GOOD NEWS—a mutation seen in a few #SARSCoV2 variants doesn’t seem to harm the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, finding “no reduction in neutralization activity against virus”.HOWEVER—did not yet test for worrisome E484K

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