#Antibodies

Kevin K. Chung, MD

chungk1031

I am giving a talk on "SARS-CoV-2 testing and Immunity" this week. Thought it would make a good #Tweetorial.Thread/ First testing.You can categorize testing as follows:Pathogen based (test for presence

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Let’s talk COVID testing. Public needs to know how they work, why they can be wrong, what decisions to make based on imperfect “specificity”, & how to tell when a

Yascha Mounk

Yascha_Mounk

A big unanswered questions about COVID-19 is the true infection rate. How many people have already had it?As testing ramps up, there are reports of random samples and/or antibody tests

Angry Staffer

Angry_Staffer

Thread for those who are curious: I’ve been hesitant to share publicly for obvious reasons, but I think enough stories match my own at this point that it likely doesn’t

Crew Libertas

CrewLibertas

So, let’s just see what we know so far. Please add to the list of I’ve missed something. -COVID is less deadly to those under 65 than the flu-The country

Charles Holmes

CharlesBHolmes

Earlier today President Trump received a polyclonal antibody cocktail made by the company Regeneron. Here’s what we know about this drug, and the additional drugs a patient in his situation

Linn Marie

Pennamiriel

Immunologists on failures of communication in a pandemic: when you express appropriate uncertainty ("we don't know for sure!") in a global crisis, you may leave people believing that a very

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

A large seroprevalence study found that we may be underestimating number of COVID cases in the US by 10-fold. What does this mean?Thread/1) First, this is a great study. Read

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/It's time to party party party with:Coronavirus Tweets From the Experts, 5/26/2020https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/lists/coronavirus 2/How to keep coronavirus out of nursing homes:https://twitter.com/SaskiaPopescu/status/126550310981358

Gus Hamilton

gushamilton

New (short) paper out - A Bayesian re-analysis of the convalescent plasma (CP) arm of RECOVERY with @DrToddLee @karlahemming @rjlilford and @DavidT_Arnold. Key question: Is CP futile in hospitalised patients

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

BhadeliaMD

I see a lot of question re flu shot timing in my timeline. Since I'm on clinical service, doing one single main tweet on it here: Generally CDC recommend Sept-Oct

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of "the end is nigh"-type posts as well as a lot of people misunderstanding this story, so let's talk about "pandemic potential" for #influenza viruseshttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-532187

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: This is a hard moment - but it’s a brief moment in our long history. It’s six months until we get to a technology to end the Covid epidemic

Yossi Gestetner

YossiGestetner

Sweeden’s 7-day average of Covid deaths is now 3. Italy is 12.Sweden’s has 544 deaths per million. Italy is 579.Sweeden had only a slowdown. Italy had a draconian lockdown.Covid-19 has

Popular Science

PopSci

Welcome to PopSci’s weekly #COVID19 Twitter Q&A. We’re here to provide informed, measured answers to your questions about the global coronavirus pandemic. Reply below or use the #AskPopSci hashtag to

Ethan Weiss

ethanjweiss

ICYMI, @ldtimmerman asked me to write a brief piece about clotting and COVID-19. It was kind of a blast from the past and we really fun to write. It was