#ANTIBODIES

Peggy Buchanan

PeggyB63

Just had wonderful and long conversation with my oncologist re COVID and androgen receptor treatment among other things... @bccww @BSBreastCancer @carolinesouthal #BCCWW COVID & gravity of symptoms:She & colleagues around

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

I know I am all over the place today but my 2 favorite COVID-19 topics are masking & immunity. Today good day for masking & here is another study (super

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Hard to underscore the importance of this beautiful study by @eguia_rachel and colleagues (see @jbloom_lab's great thread).The bottom line is that coronavirus "reinfections" don't occur b/c we don't mount durable

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

I don’t think I can get it down to kindergartner level, but I’ll shoot for 5th or 6th grade level. Then you can ask me specific questions about things that

Adam W Gaffney

awgaffney

Eric, with all due respect, this paper describes a web-based survey of a sample recruited from online support groups — but more importantly the vast majority of participants had no

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/Concerning case of reinfection: healthy 45 year old was reinfected with the genetically distinct SARS-CoV-2 variant that harbors the E484K mutation - this is the variant that was recently reported

Hilda Bastian, PhD

hildabast

Another Covid vaccine to go into phase 2/3 trial in Asia, Latin America, US. It's UB-612, peptide-based vaccine that's hoped to help prevent infection. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04683224 Deal to produce for India

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Test always perform worse than hoped when used in real world situations. What's key here is that the antibody tests used pre-COVID blood as a negative control. They were designed

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

One of the biggest mysteries of Covid-19 has been why some people become very ill, while a large number of people who are infected show no symptoms at all. It

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Does a first infection with SARS-CoV-2 make a person immune to a second infection? This question is one of the prevailing issues in the current pandemic. A thread (also at

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

We mapped all #SARSCoV2 mutations escaping key antibodies used to treat #COVID19 (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.405472v1). Surprising observations: one amino-acid mutation escapes *both* antibodies in @Regeneron cocktai

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

Here are 3 #COVID19 questions we're trying to answer:1. Why do monoclonal antibodies fail hospitalized patients? Cocktails made by Eli Lilly & Regeneron may be useful for high-risk outpatients, but

IndiaSpend

IndiaSpend

New research has shown that pre-existing antibodies for the common cold could help protect people, especially children, from #COVID19. Read this thread for insights: Scientists at the University College London

Michael Griksaitis

MJGriksaitis

Yi-Chen Lai discusses antibody mediated autoimmune encephalitis in the #PedsICU This is development of antibodies to neural tissues Think about this in kids with:- acute encephalopathy - new neurological defects-

Kelly Doran MD MHS

KellyMDoran

Another important study (just an abstract for now) with this take home: stop clearing homeless encampments (unless you’re offering the alternative of private rooms), as recommended

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I am a co-signatory with Dr Wolfgang Wodarg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Wodarg on a petition to the European Medicines Agency respectfully requesting that the agency not approve experimental anti-SARS-COV-2 vaccines. The ground

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