#Variants

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

The trend fit respiratory viruses is to become more transmissible but less lethal over time. Viruses which kill their hosts are statistically less selected for in survival terms. While anything

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

My announcement that I was running with a mask got a LOT of comment (from all sides) earlier. It’s in response to changes in the state of the pandemic and

Jon Hawkes

JonHawkes275

Following the interesting results of the WCSP poll, the next question - how do you all foresee the Challenger 2 LEP playing out post ISDR? A rapid refresher in the

Doug Clow

dougclow

I would bet a pint* that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that Hancock, the UK Health Minister, just blamed for the rise in cases in the south of England, is

GeePaw Hill

GeePawHill

Turning implicit understanding into explicit code is a great productivity & quality step.Let's talk about some whys and hows for that idea. As we forge into the topic, please do

Joel Hellewell

HellewellJoel

Important but missing from lots of long term covid strategy is an account of why previous disease elimination attempts were failing. Often mobilised to paint covid elimination as impossible but

GeePaw Hill

GeePawHill

"It puts the database on its browser skin, or else it gets the hose again." This task occupies the daily life of a great many programmers. Today, I want to

Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)

ArisKatzourakis

[MEDIUM THREAD] On the topic of covid becoming an endemic virus. You hear this a lot; sometimes in response to critiques against strategies of elimination, sometimes just as a statement

Tim - SD Hat Guy

SDHatGuy

On this #NationalHatDay, I’d like to invite you on a small tour of what’s new in my collection and what’s captured my imagination over the past year or so. Won’t

Branko Marcetic

BMarchetich

This is - and I do not say this lightly - dangerous misinformation comparable to the bullshit peddled by Trump, maybe moreso because Biden is perceived as honest and abiding

Katie O'Reilly

DrKatfish

Today’s fish wouldn’t feel out of place at the North Pole! We begin the Northeastern US & #GreatLakes leg of the #Fishmas road trip by heading to far northern Maine

Fiona Russell

Fiona_M_Russell

#COVID-19 & schools- there have been recent papers from Norway & US & Australian data have found that school mitigation measures prevent onward transmission & that schools are unlikely to

Alan Zucconi

AlanZucconi

As a #gamedev, you might be familiar with pathfinding algorithms such as A* or Dijkstra.But not many know how they actually work...Pathfinding algorithms might be complex, but they're not complicated.So

Simon Wardley

swardley

This is not a question of whether we should leave or not but one of focus. On this matter @NicolaSturgeon is spot on. It is in the interest of all

(((EugeneFreedman)))

EugeneFreedman

This NYT interview with Dr. Fauci blows the biggest hole possible in @Ken_Rosenthal's reporting from 10 days ago. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/sports/baseball/mlb-season-covid-dr-fauci.html In his article, @Ken_Rosenthal wrote,

Simply Biochemistry

SimplyBiochem

1) THREAD: The evidence FOR & AGAINST the new UK SARS-CoV-2 variant being more transmissible than the original, making it a new strain. 2) In order for a variant to

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