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Matter-of-fact recitation of the horror in Manaus from @DrMikeRyan:“ICU occupancy right now in Manaus is 100% over the full last two weeks.This is a health system under extreme pressure.”More than
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Situation with new #sarscov2 variants is becoming harder to follow (and not just because of the names), so let me try and give a brief overview: Where are we at?
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“Some countries in Europe, Africa and the Americas are seeing spikes in cases with multiple factors driving transmission risk”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser. “At present, there is immense pressure
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I’ve written a lot in the last two weeks about #B117 and the uncertainty surrounding its exact effects. So let me talk about something that we can be pretty certain
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We’re in a new year and we have also entered a new phase of this pandemic. So I thought I’d start off the new year with a quick catch-up thread
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Finally read the new update on UK variant B.1.1.7, posted yesterday, which includes a study suggesting the variant is no more (or less) severe than prior virus variants.Just a very
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"This is a moment for all of us to reflect on the toll the pandemic has taken, the progress we have made, the lessons we have learned and what we
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What do we know about the new #SARSCoV2 variants? How worried should we be? What does it mean?I promised to summarize the main points from my reporting over the last
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It’s becoming clearer that one main hypothesis that scientists are looking at with B.1.1.7 is whether its advantage could be that it is better at infecting children. There are a
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There’s a lot of concern and confusion right now about the new #sarscov2 variant identified in UK. I’ve spent today and yesterday talking to a dozen people working on this.
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Global vaccine news: COVAX says deals are in place to access nearly 2 billion doses of #covid19 vaccine. "For the vast majority of these deals, COVAX has guaranteed access to
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Science asked me to -briefly- reflect on what happened in 2020. So, a thread on this year in science, the breakthroughs and breakdowns and where my head is at at
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