#Variants

Jon Worth

jonworth

It seems today is the day to play a "what does Johnson want on Brexit?" game"He wants a Deal!""No he doesn't want a Deal!"Hang on. What if he actually doesn't

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

Pfizer. Israel refers to 30% efficacy “after” the first dose but does not state at what stage they are measuring efficacy as they ARE administering the second dose three weeks

Jay Hinton

jay_salsa

1/12Evolution does not only change virusesHere's the evolutionary trajectory of variants of Salmonella Typhimurium that cause bloodstream infection in AfricaPublished in @NatureMicrobiolhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00836-1

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

With all the breaking news on vaccines and variants I’ve barely had a chance to talk about this piece on microbes moving between humans and animals.I think it’s important for

Kenneth Baillie

kennethbaillie

Our discovery of 4 human genetic variants underlying life-threatening illness in Covid-19 is past peer review and has just been published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03065-yHere's what we found: (1/n) There are 5 positio

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

The Imperial report on the new UK B117 strain is out. Very concerning findings, that highlight why we need to act on this *now*. These findings suggest that the situation

Francesca Tacchi ★ Italian history & shitposting

jackdaw_writes

It's wednesday! Which means it's time for an #ItalianThread. This saturday, I will cover a grim subject, so for today I have something more lighthearted in mind. Since it's December,

Tom Wenseleers

TWenseleers

(1/10) What genomic features make SARS-CoV2 more pathogenic? A study in PNAS looked into this: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/15193. "Distinct inserts in the spike glycoprotein are associated with high case fatality rate of

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

1. THREAD on latest UK Covid Numbers:A reasonably detailed dive into the latest numbers & (some) implications.TLDR: things going in right direction but don't think unlocking will be easy. 2.

WorldwideArsenal™

WorldwideAFC

Plenty of Arsenal news doing the rounds today (26 January 2021) so I've done a quick thread to keep you guys up to date just in case you missed any

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

"The number of reported cases of #COVID19 globally has now declined for the fifth consecutive week”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser. "The number of weekly reported cases has fallen by

Rachel Cohen

rmc031

Got a lot of DMs today about the new Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html and NYT stories on school reopenings, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/w

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

A timeline of the EU's pandemic, from the first case detected on January 24 2020 to renewed border closures due to concern about new variants. Graphic @Paul5cott Looking back over

RiShawn Biddle

dropoutnation

Today's reminder: If school buildings are closed, kids are less likely to get COVID. @ConorPWilliams @arotherham @DanGordonDC @karinchenoweth @jacobwaters @DataDrivenMD @selmekki @KenyaBradshaw @ellisonreport https://twitter.com/dgurdas

🩸🦷🗽 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

BreeMinneapolis

Dr. Osterholm is the first speaker at Minne-College and it's like a damned rock star sighting.https://www.umnalumni.org/s/1867/18/interior.aspx?sid=1867&gid=2&pgid=2407&cid=7863&ecid=7863&crid=0&calpgid=480&c

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Oxford-AstraZeneca not only protects people from serious illness and death but also substantially slows the transmission of #SARSCoV2, finding thr #COVID19 vaccine cuts transmission by nearly 2/3rds (pre print). It

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