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The data was just updated today and Florida is now up at ~40% B.1.1.7. [ATTACH] Discussion and more charts:...
Not an immunologist, but my impression is that immunity formed against the viral vector is not a significant problem in practice. I’m not sure...
Good new overview of where things are at: 'When will it end?': How a changing virus is reshaping scientists’ views on COVID-19
Looking at doing a clone of the Ohio LG/GM plant in Tennessee with a final decision likely in the next several months. WSJ News Exclusive | GM...
LG Nanjing is reportedly the source of some (all?) of the Kona Electric, Ioniq Electric, and bus battery cells implicated in the new Hyundai...
My impression is that the core GM EV engineering has been consolidated at the Warren Tech Center in Michigan. GM Korea specializes in designing...
GM did their own pack design for the Volt as well as the Spark EV which included the Volt’s novel coolant-channel aluminum fin design. GM designed...
GM has a substantial battery R&D lab in Warren, Michigan. Here are a couple of the several battery-related open job listings posted this month:...
Not a doctor or an immunologist, but fatigue is a common symptom of viral infections including influenza. It probably can have multiple causes,...
The Ultium cells use a new NMCA cathode chemistry. I’m not an expert on this, but I assume it’s similar to the Tesla/Panasonic NCA chemistry in...
I’ve been puzzled by some of the hand-wringing around the potential single-dose use of mRNA vaccine and a concern about virus escape mutation...
Yep, both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have said they are working on updated vaccines that will also include mRNA for spike protein based on the...
Another study showing concern about the potential for vaccine escape with the B.1.351 variant from South Africa, this time from Pfizer regarding...
I generally agree with this. Tesla is the only company to deploy its own widespread network. Although, it’s true that Ionity in Europe is a...
Not to alarm anyone, but..... B.1.1.7: Status & Tracking in the U.S. Bookmark this link: Helix SARS-CoV-2 Viral Sequencing Tableau Public...
This isn’t surprising at all. The 95% efficacy is around preventing symptomatic disease, not reinfection with the original Wuhan virus. So, around...
Interesting new PBS Frontline documentary on China’s early response to their COVID outbreak: China's COVID Secrets
Interesting new high-level article going over Pfizer’s manufacturing process. A COVID-19 vaccine life cycle: from DNA to doses and then into...
Something to keep in mind is that there is no evidence yet that SARS-CoV-2 has been widely hosted in humans until a year ago. These recent...
It’s not often mentioned, but Moderna is actively developing mRNA vaccines for a wide range of viruses: Research Pipeline: MMA, CMV, Zika & Rare...
That’s a bit pessimistic. I think it shows we will need a booster shot this fall that is based on the spike protein from the Brazilian/South...
Yep, that’s the video I linked to a week ago. Coronavirus It turns out that the video may be a bit misleading. The video is illustrating the...
Sure, but I think people were hoping that mass vaccination would succeed enough to get rid of the need for distancing and most of the mask wearing.
My general impression was that Novavax seemed to have very strong neutralizing antibody titres against the original virus (stronger than...
This is from the discussion conclusions in a recent paper from a well-regarded researcher in South Africa. The paper itself is fairly technical...
Just out.... “We’re very worried,” said Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. “All it’s going to take is a couple more...
The Pfizer study seems to be a bit of an outlier. Their results were rosier than the recent Moderna study. Unlike, Moderna, the Pfizer study...
On the other hand, the new Novavax vaccine seemed to indicate that 1/3 of their vaccine phase 3 trial participants in South Africa had been...
Good overview of how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are ordered and then make their way from the factory to local clinics. This is how America...
HIV is not a good comparison because it’s a very different kind of virus that evades the immune system in very different ways. SARS-CoV-2 is...
Nope, many viruses including Coronaviruses really do follow the key and the keyhole analogy — the keyhole being an ACE2 enzyme on the surface of...
Yet another helpful new research pre-print looking at how today’s vaccines and synthetic antibody treatments are handling the newer virus...
The hospitalization age curves are not nearly as steep as the fatality curves. So, even if lots of 65+ folks are fully vaccinated in the coming...
NovaVax uses a prefusion spike protein from the original virus like Pfizer and Moderna but it isn’t certain to me yet that it includes the...
More.... Novavax is one of the 6 vaccines in Operation Warp Speed. The company said today that “an early analysis of its 15,000-person trial in...
“Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to...
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines elicit quite strong antibody responses whose neutralizing effectiveness is substantially diminished against the...
The bad news: The Lilly monoclonal antibody and the Regeneron polyclonal antibody therapeutics probably don’t work for the South African and...
The UK variant has a mutation that causes the spike protein component on many PCR tests to give a false negative while other components such as...
Manaus, a city in the Brazilian Amazon with a population of 2 million, was hit hard last spring and supposedly had a measured population antibody...
Technically that remains true, but CDC guidance allows states to lower it to 10 days in many cases and even 7 days with testing. California’s...
That’s an absurd suggestion but I’ll respond to it seriously. I hope your not suggesting doing that today. It would be pointless since almost...
A number of developed countries around the world have very few cases and deaths or had a surge and were able to near-fully suppress community...
A couple of clarifications... All EA Highway sites have at least 4 stalls — so two are 350 kW and at least two others are 150 kW. On popular...
Thanks for that info. I haven’t had a chance to closely inspect the charging cabinets yet in person although I have seen the V3 stall dispensers.
Wow, there is a bunch of confusion here. Not sure what that specifically means. The maps are accurate in that the sites do exist at those...
You wait and get your second shot when it eventually becomes available. That wouldn’t be ideal because it’s a waste of time and isn’t what was...
I’m not aware of ethnicity or “race” as genetic traits being a known actual direct association with poor outcomes with COVID-19. Rather, it is an...
[ATTACH] Sweden vs Norway.
I think they have temperature monitoring in place during the long distribution process via UPS and FedEx. Once it gets to the hospital or clinic...