#Variants

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

As horrific as #COVID19 looks right now, it is almost certainly about to get worse—“I’m very very concerned that we’ve now gone from a virus that we could control to

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Matter-of-fact recitation of the horror in Manaus from @DrMikeRyan:“ICU occupancy right now in Manaus is 100% over the full last two weeks.This is a health system under extreme pressure.”More than

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

If COVID virus or mutant variants cause asymptomatic/mild infection in vaccinated people or reinfection, think of it as a booster dose of vaccine that protects from severe disease/death.Best protection from

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

There is a predictable look to each new C19 scare tactic. The same academics, under the guise of pseudoscience, beat the panic drum, claiming the next phase is terrifying and

Karthik

beastoftraal

This product was invented in the 19th century as a powerful surgical antiseptic! It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea.

James One

james00000001

HERD IMMUNITY THREADMy superficial understanding:How To AchieveIt's achieved by enough people getting vaccinated, with a good average efficacy. E.g. 75% of people get 75% efficacy may work. Or 65% of

Dr. Monica Malta PhD (she/her)

MonicaMalta7

Recombination: A Covid Superpower?An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days. When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR

David Hains

DavidHains

Today I wrote about why the new COVID-19 variants are such a threat, and will make exponential growth that much worse: (Paywalled)https://www.qpbriefing.com/2021/01/29/increased-variant-transmissibility-poses-an-exponential-threat-health-ex

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

No doubt the UK is doing well on the vaccines front but long term we probably need to realise that the “World Cup of Vaccines” prism isn’t very helpful. Our

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

About 3,000 Americans are dying every dayThey reflect infections from mid-JanuaryGiven dropping infections since, we'll see dramatic drops in deaths over next few weeksThis is greatIt'll also tempt policymakers to

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

The main concern I'm hearing right now: What if new COVID variants keep evolving so much that vaccines can't keep up and we end up in a situation like the

Ahmer Naqvi

karachikhatmal

since i've been doing this all day, here according to my research are the distinct types of biryani variations you get in karachi.* Delhi/UP * Hyderabadi* Gujrati* SindhiIndividual shops ofc

CE Bick

CarolynBick

BREAKING: @GovInslee has announced that King County and a few others in two of the state's eight regions are eligible to move to Phase 2 in the state's reopening plan.

Reuters

Reuters

The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer

Jim Woodgett

jwoodgett

1/ Good article on the lag in tracking SARS-CoV2 variants in Canada. Short thread that’s going to annoy some people I respect and a COI: the tech I talk about

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Good and bad news about the Novavax protein subunit vaccine. 90% efficacy in the UK, but only ~50% in South Africa, largely because of the B.1.351 variant. Hopeful news too:

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