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Prof. Akiko Iwasaki
VirusesImmunity
How well do various vaccines reduce severe COVID disease & death? Awesome @YaleMed students, @dariusdariusdar, @ChaneyKalinich, @Larson_HaleighT & Caroline Valdez put together summary tables from vaccine trials. Remarkable ability o
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Top 10 most downloaded articles in 2020 includes our review in the @AnnualReviews Virology - “Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections” by @MiyuMoriyama et al! It’s free to download: https://arevie.ws/3aYt32Y Here
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What is the relevance of viral load in #COVID19 disease severity? A very talented @YaleMSTP student @SilvaJ_C found that saliva viral load to be a better predictor of disease than
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As we approach the cold winter months in the Northern Hemisphere, I want to share these movies of mucociliary clearance (MCC) in the trachea of mice housed at 10% vs.
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My first tweet of 2021 is going to be about 1 dose vs. 2 dose vaccine. I have tweeted in the past of the immunological advantages of a 2 dose
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Inspired by this tweet by @TheMenacheryLab, I reached out to the wonderful colleagues at the @serimmune to see if the other mutations found in the B.1.1.7 variant would evade antibody
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What aspects of antibody responses determine the outcome of #COVID19? In this new preprint by @carolilucas @sneakyvirus1 et al., we found that the early timing of antibody response (before 14
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New exciting collaboration work with @Aaronmring lab reveals diverse and functional autoantibodies in #COVID patients. Our findings provide clues for why COVID affects many organs, induce range of symptoms that
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I highly recommend these VRBPAC documents. There are so many amazing facts in here. One striking finding is this figure. People who received the Pfizer vaccine are protected from #COVID19
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Here is a thread to explain the findings of this study, that used computational tools to predict T cell reactive sequences in #SARSCOV2 subunit vaccines. The bottom line: there is
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Do some people have cross-reactive antibodies to #SARSCoV2? If so, who are they? And are these cross-reactive Abs protective against #COVID19? A fascinating study by @KevinWNg et al provides answers.
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Very excited to share this work by the heroic team - @carolilucas Pat Wong @sneakyvirus @tiago21bio et al on “Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19”. A thread on
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