Paused my research in 2020 due to a challenging divorce process in the UK that occupied me for 2 years, and then, another year to register the divorce in Japan. Excited to share I've overcome these hurdles and am now making my way back to the world of research! 🎉
#BackInScience
On the non discrimination & support for Africa financially on my tweets I do mention that we do NOT need extra funding to our science but to support poor people & health care system as they are the ones that suffer the most when loose jobs from travel bans or have to isolate!
Five quick tweets on the new variant B.1.1.529
Caveat first: data here is *very* preliminary, so everything could change. Nonetheless, better safe than sorry.
1) Based on the data we have, this variant is out-competing others *far* faster than Beta and even Delta did 🚩🚩
ボリス・ジョンソン首相は国民全員に手紙を送っていて、それが今日私のところにも届いていた。そして首相本人が今日NHSの集中治療室入り..
彼のメッセージ
が重たい..
we know things will get worse before they get better...
Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
#Osaka
govt to use its state univ health workers as 'volunteers' for
#Covid19vaccine
trial 🤔
- DNA vaccine developed by a spin-out from Osaka Univ
- Possible human right violation against
#frontlineworkers
🧐
🚨🚨 Professor Sharon Peacock, Director of the National Infection Service, Public Health England, says antibody test could be ready for general public to be tested in Boots or at home within days "not weeks or months". Simple finger prick test....
Take ambulance delays, for example: for emergency situations including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the *average* wait for an ambulance to arrive on the scene is now one hour, and 40,000 people with these sorts of emergencies waited 2 hours last month.
NEW:
Cases & hospital admissions in Israel are falling steeply among vaccinated age groups, in the first clear sign worldwide that Covid-19 jabs are preventing illness 💉🎉
Rates are falling much more slowly (if at all) among under-vaccinated groups.
Why a SARS-CoV-2 variant that's 50% more transmissible would in general be a much bigger problem than a variant that's 50% more deadly. A short thread... 1/