Thread by @riikka_kevo

🔴Excellent 🧵 again from @trvrb👏

#OmicronVariant really seems weird, interesting and terrifying. #OpenData #OpenScience will save the world now. Global cooperation and openness. This is no time for ’normal’ greed (nationalism, 💉patents), as the globe and future are shared. 1/

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1464353267991810048

What we can already say is that the world must be grateful to #SouthAfrica🇿🇦 #Botswana🇧🇼 @Tuliodna @ceri_news @nicd_sa, all experienced with #Sequencing (HIV, BetaVariant): THANK_YOU🌼.

Thank you for the quick #Omicron discovery and global alert. Thank you for your honesty.
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Like #China🇨🇳 in 2020, have 🇿🇦🇧🇼 been now extremely fast & open online, working by the principles of #OpenScience #OpenData. China solved in a week the #SARSCoV2 gen code publishing results online — allowing #US🇺🇸 to start vaccine development next week. 3/ mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…

This is also a time to give 🌼 to many fresh or older global #DataAnalysts #DataBanks like @nextstrain @GISAID @PangoNetwork @WHO @ECDC_EU @TheLancet who have helped with DATA 24/7 in #CovidPandemic. #OpenScience #OpenData is about you and us, who share the knowledge — online. 4/

As @trvrb explains under, are #Testing #Sequencing #TTIQ #BorderControls #Healthcare the best working tools against global pandemics in our time of fast travelling.

We are in need of global networking in this. The viruses do not respect borders, race, colors, or languages. 5/

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1464353234420600835