#Variants

Meg Tirrell

megtirrell

Novavax gives us first vaccine efficacy data we’ve seen against B117 (UK) and B1351 (South Africa) variants, from trial results just reported.In UK the news is good: 89% efficacy in

Chelsea Cirruzzo ✨

ChelseaCirruzzo

MASK CHECK With new COVID-19 variants out there, it's time to do some mask maintenance. I asked some epidemiologists about what we need to know about masks, a year into

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

JUST ONE PERSON—UK scientists think one immunocompromised person who cleared virus slowly & only partially wiped out an infection, leaving behind genetically-hardier viruses that rebound & learn how to

Meg Tirrell

megtirrell

Dr Fauci slide on #covid19 vaccines and when results are expected, from first White House Covid-19 response briefing: Dr Fauci slide on coronavirus variants of concern: .@ASlavitt now presenting at

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 310What a joy watching Fauci's press conf. today. Last yr must have been torture for him, a brilliant man of great integrity. How liberating to

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

The UK mutant B.1.1.7 form of #COVID19 first hit #Denmark on Dec. 14 -- a country that was doing a great job controlling the virus. But then is soared, by

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy_Hunt

Why lockdown isn’t working fast enough and what we should do next: a thread..... Not just borders and monitoring new strains, but time to fix the biggest flaw in our

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

@JNJNews has officially submitted for emergency use authorization with the FDA. Last week we got the results for its Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial. Here’s a thread on what we

Maneesh

Maneesh312

What’s happening in Kerala?Total casesKerala- 9,72,181Nation- 1,08,47,790Cases per millionKerala- 27772 (taking population 35 million)Nation- 8344 (taking population 1300 million) Active casesKerala- 65,413Nation- 1,41,118DeathsKerala- 3,

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

@JNJNews vaccine results are in! While not as efficacious as Pfizer or Moderna it’s still great news—it was 85% efficacious at preventing severe disease requiring hospitalization. Not a “knockout punch”

Abu Safiyah

AbuSafiyah1

Thread: Does the Sana'ā Manuscript (palimpsest) show that the Qurān has been changed? The Sana'ā Palimpsest is one of the many manuscripts discovered in 1972. It contains a layer containing

Brumby

the_brumby

The 10,000-Foot View: Forever Lockdown Unraveling? A short (for me) thread on what I perceive as the current macro situation (warning: contains some optimism)1) I believe many have overestimated the

Dan Kelly

CFIB

If lockdowns are extended to Mar 9, retailers in Toronto and Peel will have been closed to in-store sales for 162 days (from Mar 24-May 19 & again starting on

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

To give some context to the recent announcement of a new #SARSCoV2 variant/mutation, it may be helpful to realise that in the paper below we identified >12,000 variants/mutations in the

Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah

rajah_mich

A country like ranked 8th globally for its pandemic response should be backing up its gains with the most efficacious vaccines rather than making do. Tweaking our program is

TheFreePhenotype

DialecticalA

Recently an article was published that attempts to defend the idea that a clear delineation can be made between proximate and ultimate processes. Here I discuss how this perspective is

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