#Variants

Effectiveness of Face Masks in Preventing Airborne Transmission of #SARSCoV2 https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/5/e00637-20 @mSphereJ paper shows why *universal* mask-wearing is so effective in mitigating #coronavirus spread. This is true re
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There have been news reports that a recent study found the Oxford/AstraZeneca #Covid19 #vaccine is “less effective” against the South African Variant of the virus. This does NOT mean that
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The Minister @DrZweliMkhize is engaging very comfortably with the science of Covid-19. He's showing a much deeper understanding of the nuances in his articulation. He's even brought together 'competing' scientific
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PFIZER vaccine. When there is risk, there should always be a choice, with no coercion FROM THE CDC; 3,150 people vaccinated are "unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to
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Early trial data of AstraZeneca vaccine shows limited efficacy against mile disease due to the South Africa variant BUT they don’t know yet if that means it will also be
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1/n Court thread sur la récente propagation d'une variante du SARS-CoV-2 en UK. Origine? Diffusion? Risques? 2/n Une variante d'un virus apparaît lorsque un nombre suffisant de mutations s'accumulent faisant
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CONFIRMED - FORT DETRICK, THE UNITED STATES BIOLOGICAL WARFARE LAB IS WHERE CORONAVIRUS ORIGINATEDFORCED TO SHUT DOWN WHEN VIRUSES LEAKED AUGUST 2019US SOLDIERS WERE INFECTED300 CAME TO WUHAN ON PRETENSE
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The UK Government is incompetent on travel restrictions, a #thread laying out arguments why. "When you get a chance to lead, lead." That's always been the simplest and best advice
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1/n Israël. Ca me chagrine mais il faudrait qu'on m'explique ce mystère. 90% des décès et environ 80% des hospitalisés en réanimation ont plus de 60 ans, une réduction de
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Today's reading - Epigenetics of obesity 1/10Learning/reflections, for anyone interested! "environmental exposures in critical developmental periods can affect epigenetic marks profile and result in obesity"#SupportNotStigma #
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By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system
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Excited to share our latest work, where we describe an approach to systematically address a pressing (in our opinion) need in epigenetics: How do we identify functional (ie. causal) disease-associated
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I get this view but to be honest if we don’t have widespread vaccine availability in May then this is all a bit moot.https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1356235716460765184 The only reason we will have
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Can't sleep, who wants to hear about how high-performance interpreters store objects?Basically they sneak data into unused bit-patterns in floating point numbers. Most floating point implementations use IEEE 754 representation.
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I've polled my students for several years about the false "Mendelian" traits that their high school biology teachers used as examples. There are SO MANY teacher resources that have false
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This thread is an analysis of the recent unconfirmed news regarding @flyspicejet (SG) wet leasing, for a short period, an #A330 from @omanair (WY) and to decipher why this may
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