Fighting For Vulnerable Lives
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@_f4vl
F4VL is a campaigns organisation founded in response to the end of shielding and the removal of Clinically (Extremely) Vulnerable CEV CV status.
This is not the queue, stretching miles, to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin lying in state. This is the queue for a charity food bank in the capital city of the world's fifth richest country.
A thread from @TheLancet @CovidCommission on school closures: --> 195 countries closed schools during the pandemic, affecting more than 1·5 billion children and young people and posing enormous long-term and unrecoverable costs to them, their parents, and the economy. 🧵1/n
OK, an attempt to explain virus evolution, especially SARS2, and how our present situation influences this process. TLDR...it's fair to say that current UK scenario is almost certainly an "enabler" for SARS2, and it could encourage the refinement of, or next step from Delta...
What about viral genes in addition to ORF8 in controlling MHC I expression? Remarkably, many other viral genes (E, M, ORF7a,b) reduced MHC I just as well as HIV-nef (gold standard)! These SARS-CoV-2 genes, to a lesser extent, reduced MHC II expression also. (9/)
