B.1.1.529 new Covid variant.
Short 🧵after digesting dozens of virologist tweet threads & sensationalized news headlines/articles.
Too early to know what Botswana - South Africa - Christmas variant will do.
Data suggests 10+ RBD mutations (ACE2) plus 32 Spike mutations.
Short 🧵after digesting dozens of virologist tweet threads & sensationalized news headlines/articles.
Too early to know what Botswana - South Africa - Christmas variant will do.
Data suggests 10+ RBD mutations (ACE2) plus 32 Spike mutations.
Data suggests more transmissible, airborne and VAX resistant.
1 Hong Kong patient caught from a quarantined HK patient who returned from Botswana S. Africa.
NO info on how many of the 80-100 positive tests/cases in S. Africa are vaxxed or not.
South Africa has low vax rate.
1 Hong Kong patient caught from a quarantined HK patient who returned from Botswana S. Africa.
NO info on how many of the 80-100 positive tests/cases in S. Africa are vaxxed or not.
South Africa has low vax rate.
Little to no info on severity of symptoms for B.1.1.529
Reported cases/ tests jumped yesterday due to backlog of lab reports.
WHO in meeting & will likely give new variant Nu Greek alphabet name tomorrow.
B.1.1.529 may well dissipate quickly as other variants have done.
Reported cases/ tests jumped yesterday due to backlog of lab reports.
WHO in meeting & will likely give new variant Nu Greek alphabet name tomorrow.
B.1.1.529 may well dissipate quickly as other variants have done.
Reality is viruses are going to virus.
Don't let them cancel your Christmas. 😉
Don't let them cancel your Christmas. 😉
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