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Prof. Christina Pagel
chrischirp
Short THREAD on Covid-19 Variants in ENGLAND: The Sanger Institute has just released webpages that let you explore genomes that they sequences every week... I had a look - two
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Kit Yates
Kit_Yates_Maths
A short thread on variants.There are a number of cases of variants of concern (VOC) and variants under investigation (VUI) in the UK.Here I will focus on just four of
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Jane Merrick
janemerrick23
Here’s why we need to keep an eye on the South African variant:https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-19-variants-south-african-strain-is-causing-the-most-concern-for-uk-scientists-965679 As a post-script: I’ve had some people asking m
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
1 million #COVID19 **deaths** projected in India by August 2021. The model even assumes vaccines to will bring it under control by May 17th (peak deaths). God help us.
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍
jvipondmd
Here's your Covid # analysis for Thursday. 1/ Cases 1429 yest, new record for the third wave (get used to that, folks). 897 last week, so 59% increase. Increase rising
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
TANZANIA VARIANT—One of the most preeminent Harvard virology professors is trying to warn—Tanzanian variant branched off Wuhan 1.0 strain but acquired all the bad mutations of #B117 & #B1351 independently—convergent
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Prof. Christina Pagel
chrischirp
THREAD on VARIANTS, VACCINES & POTENTIAL FUTURES:I’ve been looking at data on sequenced variants. I’ve also been thinking about our vax programme & India. TLDR: the Indian variant needs to
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Dangerously negligent! “With the surging number of COVID-19 variants, (BC health chief) Dr Henry said BC would cease tracking individual variants, & proceed on assumption that variants are now
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
The most important vaccine in Latin America—SinoVac’s CoronaVac reports new trial results from Brazil —Efficacy against symptomatic #COVID19–50.7%. Moderate & severe: 83.7% / 100%. Delayed 2nd dose no issue. Neut.
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Prof. Christina Pagel
chrischirp
THREAD update on variants:Today PHE released more variant data (& split the B1617 ("Indian") variant into 3 subtypes).Big increase with 400 overall cases in UK - closing in on B1351
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Deepti Gurdasani
dgurdasani1
So looks like the govt has finally designated B.1.617.2 (so-called 'Indian variant' a VOC- the PHE appears to have designated that the risk to the public is 'high', but the
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#MaskUp Dr. Haryax Pathak
HaryaxPathak
COVID-19 Vaccines: What We Know So Far!- By Dr. Vipin M. Vashishtha, MD @vipintukur The Global Scenario: Ten different Covid-19 vaccines have shared their Phase III data.2 based on mRNA,4
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