New Covid variant with 32 mutations spreading in South Africa is ‘reason for concern’https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/new-coronavirus-variant-reason-concern-say-researchers/ …
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South Africa needs to be praised, offered whatever support is needed & acknowledged for the quality & speed of the public health & genomic science in SA, sharing the data immediately, supporting the region & the world. Not criticised, have sanctions or other restrictions imposed
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Worth remembering predictions of mutations that could arise which would change the biology,affinity,receptor binding & potentially Ab binding, initially as pre-prints in 2020 & confirmed 2021. We were warned if transmission was high variants would arisehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00954-4 …
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And yet still, despite the warnings there remains inequitable access to tests, drugs, vaccines, PPE, O2, & countries,
@ACTAccelerator & WHO remain underfunded to deliver what is needed to end this phase of the pandemic.Show this thread
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Absolutely agree. A travel ban would be handy, though. Not committing the same errors as with delta is key. If is false alert we can thank god and beg for forgiveness - if it’s real, maybe there is a chance we keep it out. This also means SA must receive every support possible.
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It has land borders and intra-Africa travel. If this mutation is more infectious than Delta, it's going to spread whatever. Constant interventions seem to be prolonging the pandemic and making it worse rather than helping.
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Key question is do the oral antivirals remain effective as they work on parts of the replication cycle that are under different evolutionary pressures vs spike RBD. Any ideas
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No idea, but it's a good question!
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"Reason for concern" wasn't hyperbolic enough.
@guardian had to one up@Telegraph with "is thought to be the worst Covid-19 variant ever identified" Irreparable damage being done for clicks.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’m wondering what proportion of positive samples are routinely sequenced in UK and other nations in Western Europe for surveillance purposes.
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If you want to see the info the scientific community has, you could follow this account, which has been logging all the variations everywhere since the starthttps://twitter.com/nextstrain/status/1464122912881872899 …
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