Template:Did you know nominations/Tulio de Oliveira

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 20:28, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Tulio de Oliveira

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... ~~that Tulio de Oliveira led the team that detected the Omicron variant and noted that similar cases had been detected in other parts of the world?~~ Source: Professor Tulio de Oliveira, who leads the team that confirmed the discovery of Omicron, noted that "10 to 15" similar cases had been found in other parts of the world, including the UK....[1]

Alt1 ... that bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira led the team that discovered the Beta and Omicron variants of the coronavirus in South Africa? Philafrenzy (talk) 23:58, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Created by Whispyhistory (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Whispyhistory (talk) at 20:14, 28 December 2021 (UTC).

New enough and long enough. QPQ present. I am not approving ALT0 because it misrepresents the quote context—the "similar cases" are immunodeficient people with long-running infections, as I have added to the article. ALT1 is better and supported by the hook. No other textual issues. ALT1 is approved. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:29, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- Oliveira came to the "scientific battleground" of researching the new omicron variant after it was found, he took part in confirming it. Read, for instance, the german language quality newspaper article by Tagesspiegel Berlin, date=2021-12-11 : Directly from the newspaper's website: [2] or via MSN: „In unseren PCR-Tests war etwas anders“: Das Labor, das Omikron entdeckte . English translation of the headline: With our PCR-Tests, there was something different — The Laboratory that found the Omicron Variant. The Newspaper says, Eftyhia Vardas of Lancet Laboratory Johannesburg (not to be confused with Lancet, the top scientific journal) found a different signal in some of their PCR-Tests (i suppose the difference was a S gene failure) and started the process of checking whether this is a new variant. Eftyhia Vardas has a Scopus h-Index of h=26: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6701448340 --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 15:02, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
  - Alt1 sounds okay to me. I have reworded a bit but happy for anyone else to tweak it more. Eftyhia Vardas first detected the mutations. Sources and hook and article say de Oliveira led the team. BMJ: Tulio de Oliveira, "the South African scientist who identified the omicron variant"[3]. New Yorker:Tulio de Oliveira is the principal investigator and leader of the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa, which involves seven genomic facilities distributed across the country. Whispyhistory (talk) 16:16, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

May need a new reviewer, unless @Sammi Brie: can go through. Haven't crossed Alt1 as it is what is said in several sources. Thank you.

Alt2...after first alerting authorities to the Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that the origin is not known?

Alt3...the Omicron variant was first revealed to authorities by bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira after it was first detected at Johannesburg's Lancet Laboratory? Whispyhistory (talk) 16:50, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

How about:

Alt4 ... that bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira contends that although the Omicron variant of the coronavirus was discovered in South Africa, it may have originated elsewhere?

Alt5 ... that bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira has hypothesised that coronavirus variants of concern may emerge in the bodies of people who are immunosuppressed?

Philafrenzy (talk) 18:45, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Let me look, I hadn't gotten pinged, so I had no clue of this.

Revised ALT1, ALT2, ALT3 and ALT4 are fine. ALT5 is not because it is not in the article text. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:23, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Tweaked ALT2 to T:DYK/P6