#Antibodies

Iratus

Y_Lynxs

NZ currently has 200,000 naso-pharageal swabs availableEach COVID swab takes 1 minute, from opening the packet to placing in the medium and sealingAnother 9 minutes to document, check, clean, change

Mr T

T5HIVHASE

I see many people don't understand what a vaccine is.. I'll try to put it in simple terms. Vaccine is a substance that is injected to a healthy person which

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ INCREDIBLE STUDY:615 adults in Tokyo were prospectively recruited to take Sars-Cov-2 antibody tests.When the study began 6% had antibodies, indicating exposure.By mid-summer 47% did. Half the population.Not one person

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

1/7 Lots of folks trying to understand sensitivity and specificity. Maybe the most important concept to understand right now is that of POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE.Given a test result is positive,

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

After many months of planning and hard work by so many (incl. @hmkyale @Dianaberrent @wade_schulz @CharleszYaleMed @Aaronmring @DaisySMassey @JeffGehlhausen), today, we are launching our research study to understand how vaccination

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

Kids catch coronaviruses. Quick thread of a review article about two cold coronas that we knew about in 1974 when this article was written.The article also says CoVs are airborne

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

: An unfortunately terrible example of COVID reporting in The New York Times, in which they give practically unhindered voice to a preprint paper by a controversial scientist who's being

BakuninsTraum

BakuninsT

+++ No Collateral Excess Mortality Due to Lockdown Thread in 18 partsFrom Corona deniers you can hear again and again that one does not die FROM but WITH Corona. According

Shira

shiraselko

My COVID-19 experience. The week of March 8 I was super sick and assumed it was COVID based on symptoms. I could not get a test anywhere. 2 close friends

Persimmon Tree Investments

PersimmonTI

$AKER -- Serial Here, then, is PTI's Akers Biosciences serial -- but before we continue, please note:$AKER is a very speculative opportunity -- to my eye, there are valid questions

Health Nerd

GidMK

It's been coming up a lot lately, so I thought I'd do a bit of a thread on CONVENIENCE SAMPLES and why they aren't great for assessing POPULATION PREVALENCE of

Robert Plenge

rplenge

Increasing evidence points to monocytes and macrophages as key players in the maladaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. A thread with emphasis on key mechanisms

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

Some thoughts from the update on the President’s condition: They said illness for 72 hours? Seems to be a different timeline than we heard. They also said he got antibodies

LolaneuroMD, PhD.

LolaneuroMD

QUE ESTÁ PASANDO CON LAS "VACUNAS": Lo puede entender cualquier persona.El problema de las llamadas "vacunas" y porqué su eficiencia es nula y hay que seguir inoculando es porque solo

Candace

RareCandace

Today, President Trump received an investigational drug for COVID-19. While my off-label therapy is FDA approved for other conditions (but not mine), @realDonaldTrump and I have some things in common.

Robert M Califf

califf001

Memorial Day is different this year--as we remember the Veterans, 3 cemeteries come to mind. This is the American Cemetery in the Ardennes, where my Dad was deployed in WW2