#Antibody

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ A reader pointed me to the fact that #NYC is in its newest reports separately listing confirmed, probable, and deaths “not known to be #COVID.” The total for 3/11

Ruminda

Rumindahg

Thread1 month since the diagnosis of the 1st #lka #Covid_19 Patient. Webinar by @CCP Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama, Dr. Damayanthi Idampitiya & Dr. Eranga Narangoda.Physicians at the National Institute of Infectious

Levi Bowles

LeviABx

It seems like lockdown is not all or nothing, and there's likely a third path that could be beneficial both to epidemic management and individual's economic outcomes. Specifically, we need

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Covid-19 IFR is *NOT* 0.13% (THREAD)There's a lot of confusion and some downright appalling falsehoods in the heated debate about Covid-19. One particular point around which the "let the virus

Gupta Lab, Cambridge

GuptaR_lab

Given the dire situation in India and questions regarding the new variant B.1.617, the so called ‘Double Mutant’ we are sharing some prelim analyses on viruses with either or both

Maggie Koerth

maggiekb1

Rumors have been swirling among my sources about possibility that PCR-based COVID-19 tests have high false negative rate. I haven't reported on it because I couldn't find anything definitive and

Sek Kathiresan MD

skathire

Wow, highest documented seropositive rate I have seen in world!200 random sample Chelsea, MA32% test positive antibody J. Iafrate @MassGeneralNews pathology Nearly a third of 200 blood samples taken in

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 24A big day as we crossed 100K deaths worldwide. Brutal & hard to get your mind around – think of a packed @umich stadium (pic).

Banjot Kaur

Banjotkaur

We know the idea of asking reporters to put quests on @MoHFW_INDIA WA group before #pressers has been farcical. Not only quests are cherry-picked, hardly 1 or 2 are taken up.

Pavan Srinath

zeusisdead

COVID-19: Karnataka aims to conduct 80,000 tests in three weeks. Fantastic if followed through. Awaiting more details as the article talks about antibody test kits - implying serological tests along

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Current evidence on immunity for #COVID19.My *non-expert* overview(replying to comment by @taaltree & would love help/comments from actual immunity expert: @florian_krammer or others)Threadhttps://twitter.com/taaltree/status/12832338636

Yascha Mounk

Yascha_Mounk

A big unanswered questions about COVID-19 is the true infection rate. How many people have already had it?As testing ramps up, there are reports of random samples and/or antibody tests

Akash Shetye

AkashShetye

So I tweeted about this last week. We are starting to get studies out of California and the world that suggest coronavirus is far more infectious than we realize, but

Angry Staffer

Angry_Staffer

Thread for those who are curious: I’ve been hesitant to share publicly for obvious reasons, but I think enough stories match my own at this point that it likely doesn’t

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

THREAD on positive #COVIDー19 developments(I try to keep a runny tally in my head - helps get through the days, knowing there is a light at the end)1. Therapeutics are

Linn Marie

Pennamiriel

Immunologists on failures of communication in a pandemic: when you express appropriate uncertainty ("we don't know for sure!") in a global crisis, you may leave people believing that a very