Omicron highlights the need for a global response and joined up thinking - the West can spend trillions tackling a virus that becomes yesterday’s news until controlled globally. Likelihood is the huge amount of mutations in this variant came from a single patient #covidvariant

Always in awe of the leaps taken by these minds with little other than pen and paper. Their theories and hypotheses have gone on to be proven as our experimental abilities have caught up. I often wonder how much further they could’ve probed with these tools at their disposal

Awww, no!!!
Gutted. What a drummer, in the seat all those years and never abandoned his roots. #RIPCharlieWatts

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80 - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Great day at the Genesis Scottish Open with 🐘Travis Burne🦏 . Well done to The Renaissance Club for a brilliant event and superb course. Congrats to Min Woo Lee well played! Wee bit damp towards the end but a fantastic day! ⛳️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love this ❤️ - the importance of enthusiastic, caring minis coaches. 💪🏉

All rugby Dads will love this. Sod that, all Dads will love this ❤️

Got my first vaccination today and couldn’t be more proud of my former Pfizer colleagues or the remarkable NHS we are very lucky to be surrounded by such talented and dedicated professionals 💪 #vaccination #COVID19Vaccination #Pfizer

When you realise it is Sunday, the sun is shining and you can go play some rugby with your pals again....

Well done to all, exciting times! 💪 🧬

Just happened upon this lovely piece.
My Last Round | Golf News and Tour Information | Golf Digest golfdigest.com/story/my-last-…

Vaccine passports = tricky legal position. Cannot force medical treatment unless one can prove it will improve health. Vast majority of population no proof, just inference so denying a right of movement due to lack of treatment.... #vaccines #COVID19

Perhaps it is the lingering effects of dry January but if I hear one more cabinet minister refer to groundbreaking, cutting-edge science with the capacity to normalise the world again as a ‘jab’, I won’t be responsible for the hard stare that follows #vaccine

Not a time for finger pointing, they need to work together. EU order was 3 months later than the UK’s. AZ, Pfizer et al have done incredible work given the relative lack of global infrastructure to deliver to an unprecedented level.

#FridayFact

Companies based at the Stevenage Advanced Therapies Campus have raised over £1bn since 2012, and around 85% of that contribution is from #celltherapy #genetherapy companies.

Learn more about the largest UK CGT cluster🧬🎬👇 StevenageBioscience youtube.com/watch?v=MOUou6…

virological.org/t/spike-e484k-…

Here we go, then - Adele 🙌

Neutralization of N501Y mutant SARS-CoV-2 by BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited sera | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The UK medicines regulator has approved the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for use in the UK

For more on this and other news visit news.sky.com

Can’t believe these scenes on Capitol Hill. It is a time for cool heads and to get on with the business of transition. One hopes this brings both sides of each house together now to mend what’s been damaged in a great country. #US

That escalated quickly 😳🏒

(via Pavel Barber)