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Seth Trueger. (2021, June 26). friendly reminder that “more transmissible” is by itself REALLY BAD for a pandemic. Even small increases in R₀ mean more potential for spread, more cases, more deaths etc please get your vax & help others get theirs https://t.co/mlojYmp71j [Tweet]. @MDaware. https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1408811800108355586

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Lindiwe Mazibuko. (2021, November 27). When literally every country “banning” you has a higher infection rate 🙄 https://t.co/NZMuf9Pfx5 [Tweet]. @LindiMazibuko. https://twitter.com/LindiMazibuko/status/1464539078611939333

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Paul Mainwood. (2021, November 29). @mroliverbarnes If it’s anything like Beta, then boosters should clobber it just fine. Https://t.co/LPX0GAXn1y [Tweet]. @PaulMainwood. https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1465263524104609792

Art Poon. (2021, November 28). Our first https://filogeneti.ca/CoVizu update with B.1.1.529. As expected, number of mutations is well over molecular clock prediction (~13 diffs). Relatively low numbers of identical genomes implies large number of unsampled infections. We update every two days from GISAID. https://t.co/m8w2CjL1c0 [Tweet]. @art_poon. https://twitter.com/art_poon/status/1465001066194481162

Richard Hodkinson 💙. (2021, December 1). @Twitter why are you promoting civil war #Bürgerkrieg in Germany? @TwitterSupport Can you try to be at least slightly responsible about ot promoting these antivaxers? Https://t.co/iXTdktPLRn [Tweet]. @richardhod. https://twitter.com/richardhod/status/1466111888027271171

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Eric Feigl-Ding. (2021, December 2). A rise in possible #Omicron in England—Tripling (0.1 to 0.3) of S-Gene dropout PCR signal, which is a proxy for Omicron (before 🧬 sequencing confirms). @_nickdavies estimates this represents around ~60 cases in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Still early—But it displacing #DeltaVariant is not good sign. 🧵 https://t.co/4aIiqiVsqH [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1466234026843205637