Prof Francois Balloux
Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics and global health Mastodon account: @FBalloux@genomic.social
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A thread about the plausible date for the host jump of SARS-CoV-2 into humans. A lot has been published about this, but not all the claims are robust. Below, I'm listing the eviden...
We are now in a position to evaluate the impact of Covid vaccines. Overall, I believe they were a success, actually well beyond what most informed people probably anticipated in 20...
New paper out. We investigated adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to transmission in domestic and wild animals, following secondary spillover events from humans. 1/ https://t.co/DeuYMB0POT
Essentially anything's possible. It's possible that if I bought ten lottery tickets in a row, I could win the jackpot with every single ticket, ten times in a row. It's possible, i...
I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic...