#Antibody

James Hay

jameshay218

Ct values can be used to estimate epidemic dynamics! We show that the distribution of viral loads changes during an epidemic and develop a new method to infer growth rates

SY Investing

syinvesting

#COVID19 Promising study of a purified inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccine induced SARS-CoV-2-specific neutralizing antibodies in mice, rats and non-human primates.These antibodies potently neutralized 10 representative SARS-CoV-2 strains.Pre-print:

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Earlier today we tweeted about a new WHO scientific brief on "immunity passports". The thread caused some concern & we would like to clarify:We expect that most people who are

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Graphs like the ones below scare me. I can't see how one can spin this as anything other than a disaster in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html People often complain that I'm

Ben Gardiner

BendyGardiner

Results from the first high-quality antibody study for Covid-19 are out, and confirm an IFR estimate of at least 1.1% (confidence interval: 0.5% to 2.5%):https://www.hug-ge.ch/medias/communique-presse/seroprevalence-covid-19-premiere-estimationSadly,

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Nothing could be a better use of your Friday night than reading:Coronavirus Tweets From the Experts, 5/22/2020https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/lists/coronavirus 2/One more reason it will take a long time to know if reopening

BritCard

LoftusSteve

There are a lot of people that don't seem to understand the futility of widespread testing with the current PCR test and also what the rest of the world are

Tanentzapf Lab

TanentzapfLab

1. Guide to the taxonomy of collaborators: The disappointment - "I know I promised you the data three months ago & three months before that I promised you the data

Jon 🔬

JonnyMicro

Just a reminder that cloth masks - the majority of what the public is wearing because it’s the only thing widely available and what is being required by governments and

Niki Kelly

nkellyatJG

Coming up in a few minutes @GovHolcomb will hold his daily media briefing. Holcomb says the order will be changed up a bit today - two guests present an update

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

This @ThePrintIndia explainer by S. Gupta implies that S. Korean patients retested positive after having cleared SARS-CoV-2, because they took an inaccurate antibody test the 2nd time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJPzGxVIxY&list=PLfa0eRI2uIa

SCDHEC

scdhec

DHEC announced 1,002 new confirmed cases and 2 new probable cases of COVID-19, and 6 additional confirmed deaths.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 25,666, probable cases to

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D

SarahMackAttack

There are really really excellent science communicators on twitter who are part of the #BlackInSTEM community. Make your timeline better and follow them. First up, @Afro_Herper She’s a lizard biologist

Tay

TaylorQuant

JUST IN: PCR TESTING MARKET SET TO GROW UNTIL 2027Grand View Research has analysed the global market and sees PCR swab testing growing on average 3.1% per year to 2027,

Bijan Salehizadeh

bijans

Over the next 10 days, there will be a massive clamor to remove restrictions on social distancing and “re-open” certain less impacted states. Putting aside what we need for “re-open”

Clarity

covid_clarity

The Minnesota covid model #MNmodel forecasts 29,000 deaths.What’s causing these high estimates?Click HERE… for a DEEP DIVE THREAD that explains it. 1/ After reviewing code & underlying data for the