#Variants

Michael Bang Petersen

M_B_Petersen

We face a race between new corona variants & vaccines. Stronger measures are urgent. To motivate fatigued publics, hope is more effective than fear & can be given via a

Vinci Zijun Wang

VinciZijun

Our newest data showed antibody and memory B cell responses in a cohort of 20 volunteers who received either the Moderna (mRNA-1273) or Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccines. 1/https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.426911v1 mRNA

Sebastian Payne

SebastianEPayne

Inside No10: fears of new Covid strains, the desire to avoid another lockdown at all costs and a new team have replaced 2020’s boosterism with 2021’s “cautious pragmatic approach”@FinancialTimes latest

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

A thread about core measures against COVID-19- people are asking if they need to be changed because the variants of concern situation. I'd be happy to be corrected but I

Psyber Attack

PsyberAttack

Just ended a 7 day Twitter ban, and this time it was so strict that my timeline and notifications weren't updating Apparently I'm now in the last chance saloon...so if

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Lots of tweets about this today! Let's see what we can see in the focal S:E484 build!Phylogenetics (what I do - making 'family trees' from virus genetics) can be very

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

French Covid thread The stats are encouraging – cases down; deaths down; hospital patients down; intensive care slightly up – but the faster-moving variants are still moving fast. The govt

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

The importance of T-cell immunity!A recent study has found that after one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine, patients had a strong T-cell response, and a boosted antibody response after their second

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

A case of the '#SouthAfrica' variant has been detected in the UK. There's also talk about a 501Y mutation in Wales.It's getting confusing!First: all 3 of these 501Y mutations are

David C Lowery

davidclowery

Got to say the doomsaying on the virus is pretty strange. Last week had a wave of students filing to opt out of hybrid classes because of fear of “the

Sarah Zhang

sarahzhang

I wrote about how all the signs are pointing to herd immunity against COVID-19 becoming impossible. This is how the pandemic ends instead—because yes, it can still end. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/herd-immunity-migh

Yvette Cooper

YvetteCooperMP

In first wave, lack of border measures made pandemic much worse. So latest delays in strengthening quarantine/tests for new variants are serious. Asked Home Secretary about the crowding/queues at UK

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

REINFECTION & VACCINE SENSITIVITY—the concern is now growing very very real. This piece highlights the big S Africa CDC report I shared earlier, where antibodies from previously infected don’t

Gill Dummigan

MsGillD

Spent today on @bbcnwt looking at the different variants and mutations of #COVID19 currently circulating around the north west. This may not interest you but here goes .... Viruses mutate

Bob Moran

bobscartoons

I understand how desperately people want to believe that all of this was necessary.For all of the misery, heartache, sacrifice and anger to have meant something. To have saved lives.

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Suppose we have a SARS-CoV-2 variant that is inherently more transmissible, and another that is more likely to reinfect people who've previously developed immunity. Which will spread more easily? A

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