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THE GOOD NEWS: Immunity to the coronavirus might last years, maybe even decades, according to a new study — the most hopeful look yet at this issue. 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/health/coronavirus-immunity.html What this
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NEW: Have you been wondering if the CDC has, in recent weeks, seemed to reclaim some measure of its independence?You weren't wrong. 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/health/coronavirus-cdc-trump.html The CDC has been sidelined and s
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NEW: All these months into the pandemic, we may have been testing the wrong way. Data from some state labs suggest up to 90% (!!) of people who get a
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More than a few people need to hear this, but the PCR is a good test, a great test even for diagnosis of viruses. The problem is not that PCR
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BREAKING: A new type of test detects immune (T) cell response to the coronavirus, and may be a better indicator of prior infection with the virus than antibodies. 1/6https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/t-cell-test-immunity-coronavirus
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NEW: We know children rarely get sick from the coronavirus. A new study shows that they make a less diverse and weaker set of antibodies than adults do, suggesting that
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How are you all holding up? Shall I tweet out a second set of papers? Or are you too stressed to pay attention? 1. This Lancet Global Health Paper is
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The confusion around airborne spread is around the word "airborne," which some experts decided means long-range transmission, even outdoors. That's nonsense. Let's speak plain English so everyone can understand. Airborne
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NEW: Remember the South Korean study on kids' transmission that had everyone talking? Well. The study had a big flaw.Doesn't change the upshot of what we know, but a flaw
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BREAKING: Children have at least as much virus in their nose and throat as adults do—and kids younger than 5 may have up to 100 times as much. This doesn’t
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You know people -- maybe you're one of them -- who were sick with Covid, but tested negative for antibodies. Why would that be? Blame the tests. They miss antibodies
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NEW!!! So. we've all been hearing stories of reinfection with the coronavirus. And they're alarming. But they are just that--stories, without solid evidence. It may seem like this virus is
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