#ANTIBODIES

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

UPDATE: A #coronavirus patient is considered contagious as long as they carry "replication-competent" virus. Based on limited CDC data, patients with severe immune impairment are thought to be contagious for

Peter West

peterfwest

Trip up to Oxford to drop off 560ml of plasma hopefully loaded with Covid-19 antibodies. Apparently I'm a good bleeder Confirmed this morning that I've got the magic blood. Already

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. There are a lot of candidate vaccines in development, but we still have a long way to go. Vaccines work by training

Emma Thomson

emcat1

1/7 This article reflects how scientific collaboration is working across international borders with online colleagues that are willing to share their expertise openly. Using the UK's genomic early warning system

Greek Girls Code

GreekGirlsCode

Hello twitter! Today I thought of showing you what an experiment from start to finish looks like for me! Here is a quick outlook: So first we collect our samples,

Dana Smith

SmithDanaG

Fauci is giving grand rounds at @JohnsHopkins today. Showing a map of the US covered in red, he says, "We are at the explosive, almost exponential, stage of the pandemic."

Covid Fact Check UK

fact_covid

There’s no cure for coronavirus, but this is a good summary of the progress being made on treatments.Amongst all the gloom, the UK is doing tremendous work here: we’re running

Carl Zimmer

carlzimmer

Today was a day that vaccine researchers had been hoping for and dreading all year, ever since—back on January 10—scientists started designing coronavirus vaccines. Why? A thread! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/health/coronavirus-va

Kendra

FGC_Kendra

So I thought that I'd actually read the study ol' Gooey is hawking today and it's already off to an interesting start. First seven pages of the opinion piece are

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Live Q&A on #COVID19 vaccines with @doctorsoumya and @Kate_L_OBrien. #AskWHO https://www.pscp.tv/w/cnqxzzI2MTAyMHwxeW9LTUFSVmpwcEtR2YDwK32_yqRKFMtFRQHQ6D-wRC7qiZSZxEbbRIn0ycU= Our body has many ways of defending itself against pathogens

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Jeff Zients and the @WhiteHouse #COVID19 team presented a status report this morning. First, from @CDCDirector Walensky, good news that the holiday surge in new cases, hospitalizations & even deaths

Dr. Joel C. Miller

joel_c_miller

Since a recent "lockdowns don't have any impact" thread seemed to get some traction (including being retweeted by a friend of mine who is reasonably quantitative), I thought it would

Marion Holman

holmanm

1/23 Thoughts on Covid Vaccine: First of all, up until this point there has never been a successful vaccine for coronaviruses in humans, due to a problem typical of coronavirus

Bijan Salehizadeh

bijans

Spent some time today going through late-phase protocols and reported data for major COVID-vaccine programs trying to understand primary/secondary endpoint definitions. Summary: great consistency in definitions of mild/moderate/severe but..

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

REINFECTION WARNING from the WHO. “We are now getting reports of people getting reinfected with a new variant—from (#B1351)—suggesting people who’ve had prior infection could get infected again.” says

Jonathan (Gab/Parler: jcho710)

jcho710

1/The COVID vaccine is not a normal vaccine. It's an mRNA vaccine. What this means is as follows. A normal vaccine carries a dead or damaged pathogen like a virus,

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