#Antibody

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

Andrew Noymer

AndrewNoymer

Convalescent serum: the new hydroxychloroquine. Convalescent serum has a long and successful history in fighting disease.But that doesn't mean that it will necessarily succeed for *any* disease.It needs to be

Jerm

mynameisjerm

The data keeps confirming that COVID-19 is barely worse than the flu.On 19 May, Dr John Ioannidis (et al) published their review of global cases, which found lethality ranging between

Zoe Keller

KellerZoe

#covid-19 Scientists working at the high security laboratories at Porton Down are testing for antibodies blood samples from across Britain. They hold the key to exit from lockdown https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavi

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

25/ One dose is good enough against the original strains of the virus (B VIC01).But you really need two doses of vaccine against the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants. 26/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421002981See

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Could the US have >2 million #COVID19 cases by now? I'll be astounded if not! We simply don't test.The ratio of who gets a test vs who should, likely worse

The Veesler Lab

veeslerlab

We discovered a broadly neutralizing sarbecovirus monoclonal antibody (mAb) in collaboration with @DavideCorti6 & Matteo Samuele PizzutoLed by @aletortorici Nadine Czudnochowski, @tylernstarr & Roberta Marzi1/10https://www.biorxiv.o

tech ghoul

GhoulTech

watching 2006 marie antoinette no @ tech ghoul jason schwartzman louis quatorze never again uh oh louis seize such perfect snapshot time: costumes? hair? whatever feel right. need masquerade soundtrack

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh

Neurophysik

Does previously infected covid-19+ person cannot get re-infected? What do we know about 'immunity passports' or 'risk-free certificates'?Read on..#COVID2019 From WHO: After reviewing the evidence on antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2

Professor Karol Sikora

ProfKarolSikora

Yet more evidence on the importance of T cells is emerging. It's significant.This isn't just one rogue study now, it's being increasingly documented.I was saying this months ago, but according

Taal Levi

taaltree

Antibody tests are coming online. Never before have humans needed to understand Bayes rule more. Let's talk about why it's critical NOT to assume you are immune to covid-19 when

Health Nerd

GidMK

I find this immensely frustratingThere is actually not really any evidence at all that serology surveys are 'flawed' or 'dramatically underestimate' how many people have had COVID-19Sigh This headline is

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

Justin Fox

foxjust

I had been struggling for a while to get my head around the argument, made by @BillHanage, @NateSilver538 and others on this website today, that antibody test results from places

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/22) Study of household transmission of #SARSCoV2 in the US in March to April. Extremely thorough investigation by the CDC showing an equal attack rate for children and adults, among

Anne Fitzpatrick

AnneFitz13

It seems like people are using the word herd immunity as a strategy without fully understanding the implications. Herd immunity is usually acquired through a vaccine because it takes usually