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Can social distancing improve the trade-off between health and the economy?”
Update #10 August 6 2020
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
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Huge thanks to the team involved @CovidGenomicsUK @CUH_NHS @igoodfel @RealMcCoyLab @CambridgeBRC @cam_fight_covid @Cambridge_Uni https://twitter.com/GuptaR_lab/status/1337373686874198016
The first evidence of in vivo SARS-CoV-2 escape from antibodies: emergent Spike deletion H69/V70 and D796H mutation in a convalescent plasma (CP) treated patient. These mutations conferred reduced susceptibility to the CP and sera from multiple donors. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.05.20241927v1
This point is vital. These vaccines were possible due to investment in science. https://twitter.com/maxgabgut/status/1336402246955905024
Can we all scientists use this day to make sure everyone understands how important is long-term basic research funding? Government-funded science laid the groundwork for this vaccine. Loud and clear please. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55227325
Cautious but good news on the first efficacy data for a COVID-19 vaccine. Can expect more news on other COVID vaccines shortly. It will then be about how they are used but a safe 90% efficacious vaccine is a game changer.
Best wishes to my clinical PhD student Ben Warne who has taken a short secondment to establish the Cambridge student testing scheme. Look forward to getting you back soon. https://twitter.com/OKaneCahir/status/1325046254771073025
P.S. If @Cambridge_Uni asymptomatic testing hadn’t shown relatively low & stable/declining infection rate among students, I’d have cancelled this class. Lesson: the lower we keep infections, the better we can do our daily business. @bealelab https://twitter.com/OKaneCahir/status/1324856275977592834
We find that many seriously ill Covid patients are coinfected with AMR pathogens so keep these in focus. This is where we work. https://twitter.com/takanocraig/status/1318830749030678529
This was one of the last @Cambridge_Uni institutes I visited before lockdown and the first I entered as we started to emerge. In the meantime, they had refocused almost all of their research on fighting #COVID19.
@CamBioCampus @Shorthand
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/citiid
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 - Congratulations: A Year for Virologists @NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charle...
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In 1984 at the dawn of HIV/AIDS, the Reagan administration claimed an effective vaccine would be available within 2 years. We are hearing similar claims for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. Virus escape mutations are inevitable and look at how fast D614G spread. Antiviral drugs = essential.
See the link below to my Blog on Manaus and herd immunity @ConversationUK. Also links into my previous essay on 'How we lost our collective memory of pandemics'
A plea to all: given seasonal cold viruses circulating please check PHE guidance before isolating and requesting COVID-19 testing.
* a new continuous cough
* a high temperature (38C or above)
* a loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell (anosmia).
Great news and a well deserved achievement. Looking forward to develop an exciting collaboration on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency. https://twitter.com/je_chambers/status/1305825012465664000
Thrilled to receive the ALTA award for basic research into Alpha-1-Antitrypsin deficiency from #Grifols. This will fund a collaboration between @TheCIMR ’s @MarciniakLab
and @SCICambridge’s @VallierLab, continuing our work on ER-biology in this disease. Can’t wait to get started!
Vaccine expert @GordonDougan1 guides us through the potential challenges of developing and delivering a #COVID19 vaccine.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/covid19vaccine
@CamInfectDis @cam_fight_covid
A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined PCR and antibody testing, after research by @GuptaR_lab from @cam_fight_covid showed that this approach was superior to virus detection alone for diagnosing #COVID19:
@CambridgeBRC @wellcome @CUH_NHS
Pleased to share this work on accuracy of combined POC nucleic acid and antibody testing for COVID-19. Importantly POC serology tests are able to detect antibody responses to D614G
@CUH_NHS @PHE_uk @wellcometrust @AHRI_News @CMO_England @CovidGenomicsUK
Our latest paper could help explain why age is major risk factor for dying from COVID-19, with people over 70 years at greatest risk, and why the disease can cause heart complications in severe cases. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022282820302571 @Cambridge_Uni @Catz_Cambridge
Please share. We are looking for a computational biologist to join us: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/thaventhiran-project. They will be studying the most relevant system for world health concerns, working with unique datasets, bringing clonal definition to immuno- pathology and protection. https://twitter.com/MRC_TU/status/1293914181150707714
New vacancy at MRC Toxicology Unit: Research Assistant/Associate: Computational Immunology to develop novel methods for the categorisation of single-cell transcriptomic data at the level of the individual T or B lymphocyte clone. http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/26614/ #jobs #immunology
Talking about Covid-19: tracking the spread of the virus in real time – Guardian Science podcast
Covid-19: tracking the spread of a virus in real time â podcast
Nicola Davis speaks to Dr Estée Török about detecting viral genetic mutations in Covid-19 patient samples...
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“Can social distancing improve the trade-off between health and the economy?”
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
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My COVID interview is now on the Cambridge University web site. They cropped the lemur out of my photo! Just see its body!