Newton Otecko
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Inaugural International Pandemic Sciences Conference, what a success it was!
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RT @iasociety: .@jiasociety has just launched a new special issue: “‘Person-centred approaches to address the health needs of people living….
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#RealityCheck.Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies From a Serosurveillance of Kenyan Blood Donors, January to March 2021 via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork.
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RT @BoiMauchaza: Excited to have contributed to the production of this year' flagship #WorldEnvironmentDay report: #GenerationRestoration:….
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RT @BoiMauchaza: United Nations Decade On Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. Humanity is using the equivalent of 1.6 times the amount of serv….
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To launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UNEP has released this synthesis report as a call to action for anyone and everyone to join the #GenerationRestoration movement to prevent, halt and...
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SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity and transmission
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More than a thousand deep-sequenced clinical samples from the UK reveal that SARS-CoV-2 has limited genetic diversity within most individuals.
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RT @martinenserink: Did "intensification" of antiviral treatment, combined with vitamin B3, rid a patient in Brazil from HIV? Hopeful story….
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Even this is a solution 😷.
CIC @Julius_S_Malema highlights the dangers of alcohol in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no-one, no dignified person, no President, Lawyer or Chartered Accountant that can say “I am what I am because of alcohol.” Alcohol contributes nothing.
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RT @katrina_lythgoe: We found extensive SARS-CoV-2 variation shared among individuals - due wide transmission bottlenecks and localised tra….
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SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, emerged in late 2019 causing a global pandemic, with the United Kingdom (UK) one of the hardest hit countries. Rapid sequencing and publication of...
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Old but good reading: .Africa joins the race to trace COVID-19 with genomics via @TC_Africa.
theconversation.com
The variation captured in these genomes, when compared to genomes sampled elsewhere, provides a fingerprint that might be associated with a particular virus and a particular cluster of transmission.
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Ancient hybridization with an unknown population facilitated high altitude adaptation of canids
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RT @biorxivpreprint: Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 #bio….
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Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins
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I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire
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I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satireVulnerable people should not be exposed to Covid-19 right now in the service of a hypoth...
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RT @ASMicrobiology: Speaking about #coronavirus in your community? Need to explain #COVID19 to the public? ASM has developed a toolkit that….
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RT @sciencecohen: Yes, it's becoming increasingly clear that isolation of infected people, robust tracing and testing of their contacts, an….
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Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents
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