#Antibody

1/nToday, I read a #COVID19 #Vaccine piece repeating that the Oxford team were 80% confident that there vaccine would work. This had previously struck me as an odd figure, and
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Interesting read: Testing is meticulous in China as conditional to re-opening their centralized communist economy.Free market economies lack cohesive action plans with 2020 recoveries less likely. Political fault-lines will shift
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This is worth the share! We can all learn from this! PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ:Repost:From Dr. Edsel Salvana regarding testing for COVID:(THREAD)@MedtechMustKnow 1. Mass testing is not testing everyone.
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Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way
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THREAD ON WHETHER THE PANDEMIC IS SLOWING: India has been recording an average of 64,000 cases daily in October, down from more than 86,000 daily cases end September. It's also
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1/And new from @USC @lapublichealth: An antibody study showing 4% of LA has been infected. With a clear explanation:"Infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread - and the
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While there is good reason to believe Regeneron’s antibody cocktail will be a good therapeutic for covid, calling it a ‘cure’ is stupid and dangerous. First of all, Trump’s treatment
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Thoughts from my piece in BMJ today about SPUTNIK #vaccine : Need the best, safest, most durably protective vaccines. Can’t identify these unless we have a transparent, peer-reviewed comparative evaluation
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This thread will take a few steps, and begins with a premise:Testing for viral shedding (via PCR) is critical and we need more of it (far more), but it's not
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1/n The AZ vaccine adverse effects are seriously concerning. First, since public money flowed into the project through OWS, we need to have access to the data to figure out
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"The need to assess the potential of vaccine candidates to inadvertently worsen future coronavirus infections through a process called antibody-dependent enhancement was a major topic of discussion" https://www.biocentury.com/arti
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1/ Crucial points about the NYS antibody study: Other studies have shown the first wave figures understate the true prevalence by 50-100%. Thus it is quite likely the real number
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Countries have few choices bc can't stay in lockdown much longer:1. Eliminate with border screenings (islands);2. Let it go & hope to build up immunity (takes months as shown by
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Miami-Dade County antibody study. 15x more cases than confirmed, implied IFR slightly under .2%. 50% asymptomatic. I'm sure the critics will find something wrong with this study too. (1/2)https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242260
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OK, quick thread on the 3 major types of statistical issues in seroprevalence studies—that is, studies that try to figure out how many people had COVID-19, like the one released
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Dr @ARanganathan72 in 2 minutes beautifully tried to imply hightened need of antibody testing in our country . I would just let others with limited knowledge about these tests understand
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