Huh. Delta’s threat was clear by end of May, from UK data and India. Omicron is developing fast, but thanks to South Africa we got a very early warning—and antibody evading variant of some sort was discussed a lot before then because that’s what the other human coronaviruses do.https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1472009383886393348 …
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I mean, yes, there were a few virologists writing op-eds in the New York Times as late as end of July denying that evidence was clear that Delta was more transmissible. (They blamed human behavior instead). But I don’t think that was representative of the general tone.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bloom Lab
Jesse Bloom had this thread based on mutation scanning on November 25th, even before what we thought would be named Nu was named Omicron. (I think like a day or so after the South African scientists warned us and shared the genome?). Nailed it, too. Great science, delivered fast.https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1464005692251992085 …
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Also, I wish we’d call this an antibody evading variant. It’s not really fully evading our vaccines. More breakthroughs and re-infections, sure. But that’s absolutely not like being back in March of 2020. We have vaccines. We understand Covid is airborne. We have drugs that work.
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I don’t think I said everything is great. It’s still not being back at March 2020.
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Yeah, totally understandable. It’s just terrible to be dealing with this.
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