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zafrada
covid
2021-06-04 00:29
Which variants are on the rise in the US?
While the the B.1.351 variant has yet to break 1%, there are two other variants currently on the rise in the US, with the important caveat that they are only on the rise in a relative sense. That is, covid
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zafrada
covid
2021-05-02 13:07
How far away from herd immunity?
Some sobering math on what it takes to reach herd immunity with B.1.1.7, given that vaccines and infection aren't perfect preventers of future infection or transmission. With an R0 of 4.3, they're looking
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zafrada
covid
2021-04-30 12:23
Caseloads continue to decline as vaccination infrastructure ramps up.
I’m excited that America’s vaccination infrastructure appears to be winning the race with B117 & co, at least for now. At this point the majority of new US cases are from B117 and the other more infectious
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zafrada
covid
2021-04-27 11:54
Multiple studies now confirm B.1.1.7 is significantly more infectious.
I was pretty skeptical when the UK announced that they thought that the B.1.1.7 variant was more contagious. They did not have any data showing increased transmission rates. But now multiple countries
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bulliontools
Silver Gold Stackers
2026-04-18 03:35
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zafrada
covid
2021-04-09 14:16
Cases have stopped falling, what gives?
Almost 1 in 5 Americans are totally vaccinated, but cases have stopped falling everywhere and are starting to rise in many places. What gives? B.1.1.7. The British variant is becoming our dominant strain,
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zafrada
covid
2021-03-31 17:32
New wave in Michigan raises concern the pandemic is far from over!
We aren't out of the woods yet in the US with the virus. Michigan is having a new wave even despite decent vaccination coverage of its elderly as the UK variant is dominant there (likely 80+% of the
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zafrada
covid
2021-03-23 17:07
Texas ending of state COVID restrictions. A wise call?
I'm prepared to be wrong on Governor Abbott's ending of the state COVID restrictions. We still need to see what effect B.1.1.7 has, but so far, the March 2 end of the mask mandate and business restrictions
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arbitration
covid
2021-03-16 17:12
How Florida fares against the UK strain might determine the fate of the US.
It is a little too early to call victory over the UK variant in the US. We will have to see how Florida fares in the next couple weeks now that the UK variant is likely dominant there. So far Florida looks
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Photography Lovers
2026-04-21 05:00
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Hello guys.... Lately I've been really into cameras and taking photos, so I've been using my old camera on various occasions to take and find good photos. Actually, I'm not very good at taking photos,
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zafrada
covid
2021-02-05 15:09
Update on B.1.1.7 (British variant) in the US.
We're now at about 2.25%, and it appears to be spreading significantly faster than I expected base on the UK history. (It may be because it's not competing with the Spanish variant that was already widespread
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-23 16:32
B.1.1.7 infectious transmissability and current vaccine efficacy.
We’ve produced our latest estimates for the level of #COVID19 infection rates across the UK pic.twitter.com/uyCKU11Wjv— Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) January 22, 2021 Really interesting
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-18 07:05
How many vaccinations are required to stay ahead of the B.1.1.7 infection curve?
You may recall me writing two weeks ago about B.1.1.7 being in a race vs. our vaccination rate, and that we needed to get about 100 million people vaccinated by late March to stay ahead of the curve -
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-15 18:46
The Columbus Variant.
You may be hearing about a new US variant, sometimes called "The Columbus Variant", and some really sloppy science reporting. Here's the paper on it. Yes, there is a set of variants that have
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darth-azrael
retrocomputing
2026-04-18 20:50
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-12 13:26
Visualizing the growth of B.1.1.7.
Some informative and frankly beautiful charts on B.1.1.7 aka 20B.501Y.V1 spreading in the UK. (B.1.1.7 is a name from the ever-growing tree of known mutations, each major branch gets a new number. The
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-10 09:05
What happens if you're not locked down and B.1.1.7 takes over? Case study : Ireland.
We've seen what B.1.1.7 does even when you're mostly locked down as it takes over. What happens if it takes over and you're not locked down? Let's check in on Ireland. 18 days ago, they were at 1/6 of
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-09 12:09
Who's up for some really good news on the US COVID situation?
tl;dr - The rate of B.1.1.7 in the US was below 0.5% in late December, we don't know how much below. That means we likely have until April or later before B.1.1.7 becomes dominant and infections accelerate.
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-08 20:06
General update on COVID.
The Wed and Thu evening updates should be our first post-holiday normal read. tl;dr - it looks like we're still trending up a bit nationally. Case counts appear to be up a bit from mid December, and with
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luchyl
Feathered Friends
2026-04-16 13:20
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I spotted a Cooper’s Hawk on my backyard fence this morning while making breakfast. So I started recording. At first I thought it was tangled in something, then I zoomed in and realized… it was having
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-06 15:19
Big COVID update - B.1.1.7 / Vaccine roll-outs / Delayed Doses.
This post is going to be a bit scattered, there is so much going on that it's exceeded my bandwidth to stay on top of it all. First, I'll give some quick "here's my take" on a bunch of issues,
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-02 18:13
We should adopt the UK strategy of single dose Pfizer/Moderna vaccine to twice as many people.
I don't feel the energy to do the long write-up right now, but I am nearly 100% convinced that the US should adopt the UK's strategy of getting 1 dose to as many people as possible before doing second
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zafrada
covid
2021-01-01 13:59
UK strain confirmed in Florida - Current estimates ~ 1000 cases in the US.
And Florida makes it 3, another case with no international travel. We have community spread confirmed in FL, CO and CA. At this point, 1000 active B.1.1.7 cases in the US is a lowball estimate; it's
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zafrada
covid
2020-12-31 13:33
A flurry of info on the B.1.1.7 variant in the US in the last couple of hours.
This shows in orange where on the spike the B.1.1.7 mutations are, and in red, it shows the location of the top 10 natural antibodies after a COVID infection. None of the 10 overlap the mutations, so we
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