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Jul 23 • Subscribe to read | 12 expert tweets ->
Subscribe to read | Financial TimesFinancial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf

Jul 23 • Science | 8 expert tweets ->
Spatiotemporal invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 emergence
Understanding the causes and consequences of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern is crucial to pandemic control yet difficult to achieve, as they arise in the context of variable human behavior and immunity. We investigate the spatial invasion dynamics of lineage B.1.1.7 by jointly analyzing UK human mobility, virus genomes, and...

Jul 23 • BBC News | 7 expert tweets ->
Daily testing can keep pupils in school, study suggests
A study in 200 English secondary schools and colleges found very few infections in close contacts of cases.

Jul 23 • European Medicines Agency | 6 expert tweets ->
COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax approved for children aged 12 to 17 in EU - European Medicines Agency
COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax approved for children aged 12 to 17 in EU

Boosting Vaccinations
Vaccine mandates are controversial. They’re also a way to save lives.

http://modmedmicro.nsms.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dct_schools_trial_preprint_20210722.pdf

Israeli Data Suggests Possible Waning in Effectiveness of Pfizer Vaccine
The new numbers still show overwhelmingly strong protection against severe disease but diminished effectiveness against infection.

https://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-response-to-nsw-covid-19-outbreak-24th-july-2021

Jul 23 • Byline Times | 5 expert tweets ->
‘World Health Organisation Doomed the World by Concealing Evidence of Airborne COVID Transmission’ – Byline Times
A former senior advisor to the SARS Commission believes there should be an investigation into how responses to the Coronavirus pandemic were based on an outmoded theory, leading to the deaths of healthcare workers

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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891

Delta variant takes hold in developing world as infections soar
Poorer countries with low vaccination rates face surge in Covid cases and deaths

Jul 19 • medRxiv | 22 expert tweets ->
Impact of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants on mRNA vaccine-induced immunity in uninfected and previously infected individuals
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with mutations in major neutralizing antibody-binding sites can affect humoral immunity induced by infection or vaccination[1][1]–[6][2]. We analysed the development of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody and T cell responses in previously infected (recovered) or uninfected (naive) individuals that received mRNA...

Jul 20 • BMJ Global Health | 20 expert tweets ->
Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19
### Summary box During the pandemic, there has been ongoing and contentious debate around the impact of restrictive government measures to contain SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, often termed ‘lockdowns’. We define a ‘lockdown’ as a highly restrictive set of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19, including either stay-at-home orders or...

https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-sorry-but-its-too-late-alabama-doctor-on-treating-unvaccinated-dying-covid-patients.html

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2031915

Jul 20 • STAT | 15 expert tweets ->
States are sitting on millions of surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses
Public health officials fear the doses are going to go to waste even as countries around the world are desperate to secure their own doses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/unvaccinated-different-anti-vax/619523/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/health/coronavirus-breakthrough-infections-delta.html

Jul 22 • The Atlantic | 10 expert tweets ->
4 Reasons I’m Wearing a Mask Again
Our vaccines are extraordinary, but right now they need all the help they can get.

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