you know how people keep warning that a third wave is imminent and it’s because everyone has been shopping? it’s not the only possibility though

in the last week, Bangladesh started seeing increases in the B.1.353 strain of c19. We more commonly refer to this as the South Africa strain, and there is little field testing about how Astra Zeneca vaccines perform - but reason to believe not great https://twitter.com/senjutisaha/status/1379480333200990209

Guess which cricket team arrived in Sri Lanka over the weekend? https://twitter.com/TheMorningSpor1/status/1381570414439145476

proponents of “we must live with covid for our glorious economy” will say this is fine. And perhaps it will be - bio security bubbles, frequent PCR tests are standard fare for cricket tours.

But some of SL’s test team are under 30, AZ has worse outcomes against SA strain and …

most importantly, most if not all of SL’s vaccinated (about 5% of total population) still belong to the one-dose AZ gang; with only 300k 2nd doses left

Who made this risk assessment; when Pakistan cancelled an U-19 tour to Bangladesh for this very reason? https://twitter.com/saj_pakpassion/status/1380808245959389185

if there is one strain I wouldn’t want here at all, it’s B.1.353 and similar lineage https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1358486648359591937

(sorry, I kept typoing B.1.351 as B.1.353 - a copy paste error)