#Variants

Dibyendu Nandi

ydnadydnad

In a widely publicized briefing @PrinSciAdvGoI underscored the importance of a) every individual citizen adopting physical distancing measures and b) vaccinations. He also said a third phase of #COVID19India is

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pseudo_sapiens

I have not been into a closed air space since last March without a respirator with cloth mask & shield.I donot even think of eating in a restaurant or going

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

I am seeing a lot of anxiety around partial immunity through vaccination producing selection for escape variants. Here @colinrussell and I explain why we *don't* think that's likely 1/nhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6540

Lindsay Ellis

thelindsayellis

Today's adventure in novel writing a "period piece" (in 2008 lol) is the many terms and words we use now that did not exist (or were not in wide use)

SereEnCubiertos

SCubiertos

What is your opinion about Mario charactersA thread! Mario Luigi Yoshi Toad and Toadette Peach Daisy Rosalina Bowser Wario Waluigi Koopa (and their variants) Shy Guy Birdo Bowser Jr. and

Ian van Zyl

HabibiSouth

My take on this "coloured" discussion: (1) It is not a monoculture or monolithic ethnic bloc. Very diverse cultures identify themselves as "coloured", including some Cape Malays, some Khoisan people,

Vinod Scaria

vinodscaria

B.1.617 is the nameFind more information on the lineage at https://cov-lineages.org/lineages/lineage_B.1.617.html This lineage is defined by 15 genetic variants including 6 Spike protein variants.Two variants of these 6 (E484Q and

Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

Seeing levels of willing negative consequences into existence from left-lib types (variants on ‘the Gov has lost public trust which endangers compliance with guidelines’) not seen since The Joker was

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB numbers: over the last 24 hours we have identified 2,433 new cases and completed 20,457 tests. Our positivity rate is 12%. We have

Paul Jakma

pjakma

It is bizarre to live in a world where large chunks of the educated classes have fallen into a fear-driven narrative increasingly detached from the verifiable _facts_ of the state

Cassie, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx

CassieCeleste

OK it's very late and @emilyvdw talked me into tweeting my THREAD on COVID doomerism because it's still endemic, and it's something that we really need to talk about.I'm sick

Rob Henderson

robkhenderson

People don't have genes, genes have peoplePeople don't have ideas (memes), memes have people Memes are “units of culture: ideas, beliefs, practices, and anything else that can be passed on

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This article by @USATODAY misleadingly states that there are "8 strains of coronavirus" circulating. Because of this our @nextstrain inbox is today full of questions like "if you get one

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Quebec’s health institute has discontinued publishing daily data on the total number of screened variant #COVID19 cases. Instead, it’s now reporting only seven-day positivity rates. In this thread, I

David Eggert

DavidEggert00

NEWS: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urges a 2-week suspension of in-person high school classes, all youth sports & indoor restaurant dining. She stops short of ordering restrictions, instead asking for voluntary

Dan the Gnome

brewergnome

It was hard to watch people I thought were compassionate humans dismiss the risks and throw disabled and old people under the bus. But I cut my friends lists and