#Antibodies

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

#TodayInHistory The polio vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk is declared to be safe in 1952, and he would later make it freely available to the public on May 1,

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

One intriguing aspect about the #COVID19 pandemic is that we still have no good idea about the virus' Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), and we don't even seem to be making

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about *window period* and how it makes everything in diagnostics complicated and difficult.Window period is the time between infection and when a diagnostic test becomes useful. This is

Aunty Anti Antibiotics

SatanKiNani

I'm going to cover one by one, small points about Covid19 infection which you surely must have read already. But they're the things which matter the most and may save

Susanne Sattler

notimmuneatall

Here’s a thread on all the wonderful #FirstAuthors I was lucky enough to work with since starting my #SeniorAuthor journey.Science in isolation is impossible. My most intersting projects were always

Hikmatullah Khan,FCPS Neurology

DrSherani432

1) Lyme Disease::Tick... Bites.... Small rodents... Take Bacteria from Small rodents... Than bites human and causes.Reservoir for Bacteria... Rodents. Reservoir for Ticks........ White Tail deer. 2) Three Stages of Disease::STAGE1::Early

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (3/19/20)Here is a bullet point summary of today’s episode of This Week in Virology (TWiV). The purpose of this episode was to answer YOUR questions! I encourage

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

PAY COVID SURVIVORS HANDSOMELY FOR THEIR PLASMA Plasma from recovered patients is the best COVID treatment we've got right now.That means we'll need

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 62Today started as slow news day. Then it wasn’t, as @moderna_tx vaccine results hit. I’m not a vaccine-ologist, so I zoomed my go-to person, Joel

Marc Somssich

somssichm

One thing apparent when re-visiting the history of plant microscopy, is that microscopists have always loved the fine structure of the cytoskeleton. Another little thread for this favorite of microscopists.

Askeladden Capital

AskeladdenTX

MEGATHREAD on important recent findings on immunity against SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19, including *duration* of immunity as well as *prevalence* of immunity among BOTH recovered individuals and uninfected, “susceptible” individuals. (1/n)

☨ Resurrection Europa 🍁

WolfishHead

I think their strategy with digital ID and also the coming vaccine is not not make it "mandatory" per se, but to say it's "optional" but if you don't opt-in

Rino Rooter 🇺🇸

RinoRooter

COVID severity tied to vitamin D level30 More likely to have milder case.Next: Get your Vitamin D levels checkedLast: upper daily

Jim Stogdill 🙊

jstogdill

The “it’s just the flu” folks are all excited about the Stanford study. So let’s break this down. 1 For comparison, in the 2018 to 2019 season US flu deaths

CNN Philippines

cnnphilippines

Marikina City will open its COVID testing center on Friday even without DOH approval. Mayor Marcy Teodoro cites 'local autonomy,' adds DOH inspectors haven't visited the structure despite several requests.Shortly

Duke-Margolis

DukeMargolis

@DukeMargolis director Dr. Mark McClellan along with @ScottGottliebMD @cmyeaton @LaurenRSilvis and @Farzad_MD lay out what is needed for a national #COVID19 surveillance system along the #RoadmaptoReopenhttps://healthpolicy.duke.edu/sites/default/fil