#Variants

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MPrepuce

Thread.I’m getting some questions about COVID & vaccines, largely around dosing & new variants. I’ll offer some thoughts here, from a virologist’s perspective.Using 1 dose of a vaccine, and providing

Adam

hemlok_

We're launching Smart Components todayTiny thread of some of the things *I'm* really excited about https://twitter.com/framer/status/1356633601614446593 I talked about this when we launched our beta, but I think it's so

Tim Harford

TimHarford

1/ My column today - is "first dose first" (and worry about second doses later) the right vaccination strategy?https://www.ft.com/content/915756b2-6f13-41fb-9491-a647817aa919 2/ A couple of points. First, mainstream opinion on thi

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jelenedra

It came up in a discord this morning that a lot of people maybe don’t know the “””subtle””” signals yt supremacysts and n@zis will use to communicate to other white

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

A reminder of why the vaccines are still GOOD NEWS and a light at the end of the tunnel - despite the scary stuff about variants:Last week, I wrote in

Mackenzie Gray

Gray_Mackenzie

NEW - Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc announces that anyone coming into to Canada will require a negative covid PCR test 3 days before arriving in Canada #cdnpoli Public Safety

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Recently reported #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 '#mink mutation' in #Denmark is getting a lot of attention right now, but officially we know almost nothing about the variants/mutations in question.From an SSI report

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

Again, lots of clamour to close the borders or have mandatory hotel quarantine, and Scotland now implementing managed quarantine for all itl arrivals.But the latest PHE report and other analysis

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BEAST MODE—the new B117 is a beast of a #SARSCoV2 variant. The variant adds ~ 0.4-0.7 to the R (Reproductive number). What could keep in check via containment, R

Tara Moriarty

MoriartyLab

#Canadian #medtwitter Many are feeling conflicted about posting vaccine selfies b/c of very real & important equity concerns.But we cannot underestimate how important it is for people to see that

Dr. Dave Kamper 🌹

dskamper

The two MN marijuana-legalization parties appear to have won enough votes in key districts to deny the DFL the State Senate, thus making marijuana legalization highly unlikely. Based on the

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Concerning—WHO head @DrTedros now sounding the alarm on concern that more the virus spreads, increases chance of mutations. He adds: "Transmissibility of some variants of the virus appears to be

Adam A. Donaldson

adamadonaldson

To begin, Schreiner thanks everyone for sticking with the public health guidelines, and we owe it to the elderly and frontline workers to stay the course and get the numbers

ᖇ⦿ᖘ Gonggrijp

rop_g

The EU has (so far) escaped what could have been the most serious and immediate threat to its existence to date. We can all count ourselves lucky that the extreme

Andrey Zarur

andreyzarur

Mutations to the Covid-19 virus in the UK are worrying, but not surprising. There are thousands of known mutations to the virus, it was only a matter of time before

Chris Marsicano

ChrisMarsicano

Students are coming back to campus and their college dashboards are starting to show COVID-19 case increases. It is easy to get worried about the numbers rising. HOWEVER, there are

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