#Variants

Kate Taylor

katetaylornyt

There seems to be a lot of confusion around the question of whether you can resume normal activities when you are vaccinated and why that still involves some risk. In

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

THREAD 1/5: I know this is not very nice just a couple of days before Christmas but I have to say I'm concerned about the CDC press release today, and

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Yesterday I was contacted by a prominent BBC programme to speak about strategy for exit from lockdown & the role of scientists & politicians in defining this. I outlined elimination

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

We have reached the point where national lockdown restrictions are needed immediately as UKG has done. We must use the time it provides to change fundamentals of this infection through

DJ Wilton

yarnfiend

1/ You know in the disaster movie when a headline on the news in the background is meant to foreshadow how oblivious the characters are to looming catastrophe? Yeah, that.

Calla Wahlquist

callapilla

The suggestion that it is unsafe to run hotel quarantine because of the B117 strain and other new variants is.... not proven. If we accept the outbreak is due to

alex rubinsteyn

iskander

Saw this paper by way of @apoorva_nyc: "Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants"https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.21.214759v1.abstractMy instinct is to expect any preprint on this top

Noph

Nopholom

An issue I have, and this is coming from the standpoint of a trans man, is language about and gender identity itself are currently in the middle of such a

Jennifer Cabrera 😀 #SmilesMatter

jhaskinscabrera

"The claims about... new viral mutations are wholly sourced to epidemiological models constructed by a handful of academics, who have access to influential people and platforms. These models have not

Shilpa Anand

shilpaanand

Been disappointed with @HLLLifecare as this pandemic has progressed. They have simply not stepped up. They could so easily have set up a robust online platform for hospitals/patients to buy

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD HARDER—Vaccine herd immunity is becoming harder. The formula is (1-(1/R0)) depends on virus contagiousness, which #B117 variant is 40-80% higher & will be dominant soon. So instead

Archimedes DVM 🦉Ω

Archimedes2020

Hi-Science time. Everyone is all worried about COVID variants. And they should be. RNA viruses mutate. A lot. Most mutations don't lead to anything. But some....well...they can be bad. However.....

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

BAD NEWS: 2 cases of a new "more transmissible" #coronavirus variant linked to #SouthAfrica identified in the UK.This new variant appears to have *mutated further* than the new B.1.1.7 variant

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Am going to talk about my experience with media bias around discussions of zero COVID & how this is shaping our COVID strategy. I've encountered this again & again. Am

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's Substack post is about the U.S. vaccination effort.It's not good enough. BUT, it's better than almost the entire rest of the world! And I don't think Americans have collectively

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

It is finally happening. After the expected lag of 3-4 weeks, deaths from COVID in the US are finally coming down. This is fantastic, and I am confident that with

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