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  1. Aug 29

    🦠NEW VARIANT—a new variant C.1.2 just identified in South Africa & several countries, with concerns it could be more infectious and evade vaccines. also has mutation rate that is nearly **twice as fast** as the rate of the other variants.🧵

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  2. Sep 1

    BREAKING—The announces that new variants will be named after major stars and constellations once they run out of Greek alphabet letters. Examples like “Virgo variant”, “Orion variant”, etc. 😳 Cassiopeia could be cool—but it’s sad they need to plan this.

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  3. I wear a full protective suit when working with in the BSL3 lab - but ok to send kids to school & daycare to catch there? From now on I can work with the virus in the coffee kitchen, no? *irony off*

  4. Ebolavirus: Discovered in 1976, persistence in semen discovered only in 2014/215, Zikavirus: isolated in 1947, microcephaly discovered in 2015...many more such examples! Emerging viruses are full of surprise - how can some be so sure in kids is not a big deal?

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  6. There are also solid facts to share, not just emotions: ▪️Kids can get covid ▪️Kids can get ▪️Kids transmit ▪️No masks in schools ▪️Hardly any other mitigations ▪️Kids who’re household contacts of acute cases can still attend school

  7. If you have and been denied care or diagnosis because you had no covid antibodies detected in your blood, show this paper as evidence that some people infected with don’t develop antibodies.

  8. Study from USA finds no evidence of increased severity of infection with Delta compared to previous variants of (% of PICU admissions and length of stay actually slightly lower with Delta) However big increases in rates of infection in low vaccination areas

  9. Aug 31

    Have you met C.1.2? Our newest addition to the variants list? It emerged in South Africa, & has so many mutations that it seems to be, "accelerated evolution in a single individual with prolonged viral infection through virus-host co-evolution."

  10. Aug 30

    6) Recently, another study found that Moderna’s vaccine had **2-fold lower risk of breakthrough** infections compared to Pfizer’s in a review of people in the Mayo Clinic Health System in the U.S. from January-July. A preprint. But solid study.

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  11. Preexisting cross-reactive T cells against enhance SARS-CoV-2 immune responses upon infection & vaccination, a new study shows. These cells’ cross-reactivity decreases w/ age, which may help explain the incidence of severe infection in elderly

  12. Aug 31

    🚨 NEW: Considering that vaccinated individuals are 27 times more likely to become symptomatic from than those already infected - there is no case for .

  13. Sep 2

    I have just learned that my younger brother who is visiting Pakistan has been infected with . It's a breakthrough infection. He was asymptomatic & doing just fine. My entire family in Pakistan was tested & the results came back -. Vaccines do work. Please get vaccinated.

  14. Sep 1

    We summarized what we currently know about -specific . Check out our new review about SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells in infection and vaccination online today in Cellular & Molecular Immunology.

  15. Sep 1

    Since this question comes up quite a bit: Once the runs out of Greek letters to name variants of it plans to start using the names of stars or constellations such as say Virgo, Draco or Orion.

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  16. Aug 30

    14/The role of *salivary* antibodies in protection against is unknown. Surveillance of salivary antibodies could provide critical insight into who is at highest risk for breakthrough infection post vaccination, as well as helping to optimize protection against the virus

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27168245/
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  17. Sep 1

    Table 3 shows that frequency of several symptoms is increased at 3 months in children and young people after testing positive for .

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  18. Sep 2

    Sadly on 31st August another child was lost to Covid 😢 The child that died on the 24th was aged between 0-4, no details on this one as yet.😢

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  19. Sep 2

    Elegant work published today that could never be done in humans to dissect out each component of the adaptive immune response to . Better than the paper is a thread by the master explainer!

  20. Aug 31

    SARS-CoV-2 prevents infected cells from signaling its neighbors, and shields them from T cell recognition and destruction. It also disrupts T cell functioning by targeting MHC-I. Here I describe these immune suppression processes of the virus.

  21. 7 hours ago

    Data from the UK now show that the case fatality rate for Delta variant is higher for fully vaccinated people (0.96%) than for unvaccinated people (0.24%). 60.7% of deaths are in the fully vaccinated. (See Table 5.)

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