#Variants

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

I'm not recommending ordinary people read & try to make sense of all this: highly-specialized topics. I'm just posting this as example of why regular people should feel comfortable stop

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

1/ A sense of why, even if cases aren't rising, more restrictions may be needed outside tier 4. Here is a simple model of a region that starts off in

Dr Alexandra Phelan

alexandraphelan

A lot of good discussion today about what we know and don't know about the new #SARSCoV2 variant in the UK. But what does this mean (if anything) for government

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Why it is time (never too late) to get super-serious1. Holiday surge after holiday surge is small potatoes compared with a superspreader strain. B.1.1.7 is here,

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Pfizer study shows vaccine should work against this B.1.1.7 UK and South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2. mRNA sequence in Pfizer vaccine likely propietary but Pfizer took a virus with the

Barbara Larochelle

BarbLarochelle

Shandro is supposed to be at today’s covid update. He’s not usually as late as Kenney. Shandro’s lecture today is on virus variants. He says the things that we have

Jonathan Cedernaes

JCedernaes

A rather new #SARSCoV2 variant B.1.525 has been identified in some countries, e.g. England & the U.S.Id dates in photo below from https://cov-lineages.org/global_report_B.1.525.html.There is however no evidence so far that

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

This is an awesome question. (Incoming big thread!)The vaccine studies looked for symptoms of COVID. So it was easy to say from the trials that the vaccines prevented symptoms &

Meg Tirrell

megtirrell

J&J CFO Joe Wolk on #covid19 vaccine supply: "We're very confident and on track to meet all of our commitments."-100M doses to US by end of June-200M to EU by

Al Jazeera English

AJEnglish

Thread As new coronavirus strains emerge and infect more people, questions loom over the effectiveness of vaccines.Here’s what you need to know about the most concerning COVID-19 variants 1-

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

“coats are a lie”“If you look at the statistics for hypothermia, most of those people were wearing coats.”That’s where we are folks. #COVID19 2) Vaccines work and the faster we

Rebecca Morelle

BBCMorelle

Very good news on #Novavax vaccine in UK trial - reduced efficacy in South Africa (50-60%) not so great news (1) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55850352 Interesting as this vaccine trial was able to

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

@JuliaHB1 please ask @carlheneghan 1) Has the asymptomatic spread theory upon which lockdowns were justified been supported? 2) What were the results of the vaccine animal trials?3) What are the

Mia Malan

miamalan

[Thread] 1. NEW Early data (not yet peer reviewed) shows the #AstraZeneca #CovidVaccine, that SA will start to administer this month, doesn't appear to offer protection against mild/moderate disease caused

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the question of how mink outbreaks can impact vaccines, antibody therapeutics, or diagnostics. How realistic is this concern?The idea is that SARS2 spreading and adapting in large populations of

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

The new and improved http://CoVariants.org is here! We're hoping to make this a one-stop location to track not only the 'headline' variants, but many different #SARSCoV2 mutations & variants that

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