Alex Kydd Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer

A thread- resolving the Omicron Paradox.

Naively I thought the end of the emergency phase of a pandemic was a time to distill and learn. Basically what do we do now and how can we can respond better. Watching the best of the best being shown a “door” is the last thing I thought would transpire.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... “Studying the virus, how it infects people and the government’s response to the pandemic is also crucial to preventing the next one….” .. Yep

Vale Simon Townsend. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01... 1/ They had a segment where you could write in about your pet. Most people wrote in about a budgie/cat/dog. Maybe a chicken now and then. My sister then writes in about her pet kangaroo.

Carrie Fisher on a train to Norway to film parts of The Empire Strikes Back in 1979.

Variant trackers are moving their way over here, and there is now a Starter Pack for COVID Variant Trackers if people are interested: go.bsky.app/GXgmcd1 #COVID #SARS-CoV-2 #Variant #Trackers #Omicron

For a virologist in 2023 bound to tracking a pandemic virus, I would conclude many people we spoke to about our work were like this: www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8d...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Our work covering the span of the Covid-19 pandemic is finally published and will be my first post here. What did we see and why is it important. A thread.