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COVID19 Saliva Study
SalivaStudy
Antibodies that circulate through the blood differ from secreted antibodies (i.e. in the nose or saliva) which protect mucosal tissues. We are profiling the secreted antibodies to get a better
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Not All Rapid Antigen Tests Are Equal!Please do NOT assume metrics same across tests Some work amazingly well to catch contagious virus. Some not If you hear
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Alex Berenson
AlexBerenson
To be clear:What we know about the mRNA vaccines (from the clinical trials):1) They produce antibodies to the spike protein.2) They reduce very mild to moderate disease in a healthy
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Shane Crotty
profshanecrotty
Well, that's a nice surprise!What happens if you have had COVID infection before and you get a COVID vaccine? Some observations last week are summarized here:https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1356623349862989827?s=20 In a new p
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c0nc0rdance
c0nc0rdance
What do sharks and camels have in common, besides sometimes trying to eat children?Camelids like llamas, alpacas, camels can produce a type of antibody consisting of only the heavy chain
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Bloom Lab
jbloom_lab
Excited to contribute to this extremely important #SARSCoV2 study by @GreningerLab that provides first direct evidence that neutralizing antibodies are a correlate of protection against #COVID19 in humans! (1/9)https://www.medrxiv.org/conte
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Aproko Doctor
aproko_doctor
Ladies, if your blood group has a negative sign beside it, this thread is for you. A-, B-, O- etcIt means your blood group is Rhesus Negative, getting pregnant for
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Thomas Massie
RepThomasMassie
2% of blood samples collected in California in December 13-16th, 2019 analyzed in this study had antibodies reactive to SARS-CoV-2. It’s possible some are due to cross reactivity of antibodies
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Prof. Akiko Iwasaki
VirusesImmunity
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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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
angie_rasmussen
Earlier this week, I tweeted that the headlines around the antibody study from the UK were misleading, and that the study doesn't actually suggest that immunity is waning.https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1321093259351961600 I
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Friederike Ernst
tw_tter
I would like to talk about antibody tests. There are too many people in my bubble who don't understand why a specificity of say 95% doesn't mean 95% of people
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Carrie
CarolFitzmwangi
Oh, btw I’m here to tell y’all to never become vegetarians. It’s the hipster thing to do but the human body wasn’t biologically wired to subsist on plants. A mini
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Apoorva Mandavilli
apoorva_nyc
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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Eugene Gu, MD
eugenegu
Let me attempt to explain why I believe that Big Pharma’s push for monoclonal antibody treatments may have played a role in the development of the more contagious B.1.1.7 coronavirus
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Bea is Chronically Persisting
Be_Kinderr
Does anyone know about immunoabsorption? It sucks IGG antibodies out of blood. In a study of ppl w #MECFS w these antibodies, 7/10 got better or recovered from ME w
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Apoorva Mandavilli
apoorva_nyc
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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