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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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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 Charles M. Rice "for the discovery of Hepa...
www.nobelprize.org
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 to investigate hospital outbr...
www.theguardian.com
“Can social distancing improve the trade-off between health and the economy?”
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Weekly COVID-19 Update - Covid 19 Comms Dev
covid19.medschl.cam.ac.uk
My COVID interview is now on the Cambridge University web site. They cropped the lemur out of my photo! Just see its body!
Scientists @cam_fight_covid and @CUH_NHS have been using genome sequencing and staff screening to identify outbreaks of #COVID19. This has helped limit the spread of infection within the hospital:
@EsteeTorok @igoodfel
@LabWeekes #genomics
Opinion article in @guardian on science evidence supporting masks for population, and possibly why the UK government has been reluctant to advocate use.
Across the world, face masks are becoming mandatory. Why not in the UK? | Babak Javid
Our second paper on COVID testing and healthcare workers is now out in eLife. Our group is now slowly stepping back from testing and returning to their day jobs, including thesis writing. Important learning curve for all.