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The world seemed to have a time in 2020 when it's message was unified: "flatten the curve".But with the benefit of hindsight, we should have been saying "crash the curve".
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Short thread on the scientific manuscript (what we nerds call a "paper" before it's called a paper) peer-review process in terms of turnaround time.(and far more expert & frequent reviewers
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What is a PCR cycle? We sciencey types throw in words that we use for a specific purpose, but which also have other everyday meanings among most of the people
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A new version with colour & division inspiration from @uq_news and strict mouse design oversight by @kat_arden (ver3.0).It reorganises slices into personal & shared responsibilities (think of this in terms
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That website opinion attack piece on the Corman/Drosten RT-rPCR tests has a few confused & sometimes very wrong comments. I'll preface this thread with a *presumption* I'm making - these
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In the spirit of filling those with no PCR experience in. This is a lunchtime thread showing the progress of a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-rPCR) "run".The thing being
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If there's a link provided, it points to an Emergency Use Only instruction document for the CDC's SARS-CoV-2 PCR (July here, may be other versions) in which there's a comment:
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I know the technical PCR nerdery is hard for the general public. I feel this whenever I read a hardcore immunology paper!A few thoughts on the concerns about PCR...PCR threshold
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"can you link to evidence that the virus was isolated" is becoming fake moon landing level stupid Study1: 23JAN2020https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.22.914952v2bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from RT-PCR-positive patien
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Convalescent plasma treatment for SARS-CoV-2infection-most make antibody (Ab) , most Ab neutralises (NAb) SARS-CoV-2 and most people retain measurable levels after 50 dayshttps://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.2
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