You’re hearing about the new variant? B.1.1.529, soon to be Nu? Yes, the early signals are genuinely worrying. (This isn’t true for many; it is for this one. Dismissing this one isn’t wise.) It’s now spreading in a poor and poorly-vaccinated area. The world needs to step up.https://twitter.com/bachyns/status/1463915824536817669 …
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Needs higher transmissibility than Delta to displace it as a dominant variant. Thus far, most of its mutations are in sites recognized as impact on nAbs, not as much with transmission, which is good news.https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1464005715102633986 …
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Yeah, more data is needed, but the “oh, Nu isn’t overtaking Delta because it isn’t more transmissible” isn’t a good bet at this point.https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463956686075580421 …
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When I read about this yesterday concern was about how contagious it is. Today I see it's more than a concern It's spike proteins do have the ability to weaken vaccine/immune efficiency
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How do mutations affect the reliability of tests? Do PCR and rapid tests need to be reformulated?
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