#Antibodies

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

So why aren't we seeing kids with COVID-19? Is it because they're not getting it, or just not sick enough to go to hospital?Iceland tested 6% of their whole population.

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Why should we not worry about VARIANTS "escaping" immunity from vaccines or natural infection; why are we not likely to need vaccine BOOSTERS? Remember immunity is both antibody and cell-mediated

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A short thread about covid herd immunity. First let's look at New York & Sweden. NY wears masks, closed business, closed schools, and mandates social distancing. Sweden did not but

David R. Liu

davidrliu

A key piece of the #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 origin puzzle emerges: where did the virus's unusual spike protein RBD—the receptor-binding domain that engages human ACE2 protein and allows the virus to

Issam Ahmed

IssamAhmed

Trump's doctors confirm he was given oxygen and the steroid dexamethasone, which is used to dial down the immune response and indicates they're worried inflammation might cause lung damage. He

Steven Sinofsky

stevesi

Throwing this out there because, well, wondering what I'm missing. Testing for C19 IgA is an immediate goal for many policy makers.If we move to testing to verify people for

The Menachery Lab

TheMenacheryLab

Let’s talk immunity to #COVID19. I am on record saying immunity may only last 1-2 years based on serum neutralizing antibody (Ab) to MERS and common cold CoVs. https://bit.ly/3dQQOJz Does this

Prof Somashekhar Nimbalkar, MD, PGDPH, CPH, Neo

ProfSomashekhar

When we talk of Immunity we mean that our body has the resistance to fight or is impervious to a external threat. In the biological context it means we can

Drew Deal

drewdeal

Here are my compiled demands for @realDonaldTrump and ALL other public officials:Americans need to be treated like adults with FULL #transparency along the following lines:1) Celebrate those that have recovered.

Parikshit Tank

pariktank

THREADWhy vaccinate pregnant and breastfeeding (P+BF) women against COVID-19 in India?A decision that will affect the lives of 50 million Indians over the next year.1/n At present, @MoHFW_INDIA has contraindicated

Carina King

CarinaTKing

Let's talk about #Herd_Immunity, given some recent interviews on the #COVID19SWEDEN strategy have talked about this being 'a result'... is this achievable, sensible and acceptable? 1. #Immunity: Do people get

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/YMany criticized the article below co-authored by Jay Bhattacharya, who also co-wrote the Great Barrington Declaration.But I haven't seen a detailed explanation of why the article was wrong + dangerous.

Joshua C. Doloff

DoloffLab

OMG. Who sent this thing, The Terminator?! (Work just published in @NatureMedicine shows antibody levels decline quickly in 2-3 months across both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.)https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. There are a lot of candidate vaccines in development, but we still have a long way to go. Vaccines work by training

कुशल मेहरा

kushal_mehra

The only road forward for companies to start working is actually testing their company workers and staff. For that we need more and more private labs coming in the testing

Sen. Jeff Jackson

JeffJacksonNC

“Hey Jeff, you know we can't stay home forever, right?”Let’s talk about how North Carolina gets back to work.And let’s skip the obvious stuff - like hand-washing and staying home