Latest results of REACT-2 study out today (preprint, not peer reviewed). Antibody self-testing in 150,000 adults in England 26 Jan - 8 Feb 2021 imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial… Key results in this thread 1/n Graham Cooke Steven Riley roz redd

SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to emerge. Some spread while others die out. So what virological traits might give a variant an advantage over the crowd? Here are our preliminary efforts in the Barclay lab to characterise the B.1.1.7 UK variant biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

NEW Correspondence reports early findings from study suggesting individuals with previous #COVID19 infection generate stronger immune response to first dose of BNT162b2 #vaccine compared with previously uninfected individuals. Responses weaker in over 50s. hubs.li/H0Hgznz0

Study on vaccine responses in healthcare workers (mostly renal!). Results will enable us to understand/compare how kidney and immunosuppressed transplant patients will respond. bit.ly/3pX0GpN . Results to follow very soon! Maria Candice Clarke Stephen McAdoo

NEW #BMJresearch evaluated the performance of new lateral flow immunoassays for use in national covid-19 seroprevalence surveys. One new LFIA was found to be suitable, but none of the LFIAs tested meet the criteria for individual use ow.ly/uXlN50DNIQb

More research to do, but it’s a start! Many thanks to everyone who worked on this study ⁦Finola Ryan⁩ ⁦Imperial Medicine⁩ ⁦Imperial Department of Infectious Disease⁩ theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…

Our SARS-CoV-2 preprint is online biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. We show new insight into attachment, entry and budding of virions in human airway epithelium. I’m very grateful to those that have contributed to this work Andreia Pinto Jonathan Brown wendybarclay @AranSinga Anand Shah

Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 in chlorinated swimming pool water biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

nature.com/articles/s4156… 5 first authors, a true representation of the team effort, well done every1 Tom Peacock Daniel Goldhill Jay Jie L Baillon, Olivia Swann, R Kugathasan, R Penn, Jonathan Brown Raul Y Sanchez David J Hazzard, @EccoStaller wendybarclay