#Antibody

Ola Grimsholm, PhD

AnImmunologist

A thread on vaccines that induce a better and more efficient long-lasting immunity. It is a misunderstanding often brought up that natural infection induces a better immune response than a

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

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

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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GhanaboyPharmd

**Thread**The FDA has just recently granted an EUA to Lilly's Antibody treatment Bamlanivimab for COVID19This particular study is an ongoing phase 2 trial that involved outpatients with recently diagnosed mild

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

What about vaccinating people who have already had COVID? I get this question a lot. New answers now! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/health/have-you-had-covid-19-coronavirus.html Excellent and rapid work to find that, for people who hav

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—U.S. govt is considering giving some people half-dose of Moderna's #COVID19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, says Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, in talks w/ FDA. Bold,

Dr. MAAWEYA ELAEED

DrMaaweya

10 months into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, what we have learned1.SARS-CoV-2 is not only emergent virus we have to concern about.2.SARS-CoV-2 is going to be circulating and stay with us forever.3.I

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

This article is not too bad in the grand scheme of things, but I admit I had a visceral reaction to the headline--'Not this again!' h/t @KurtadikarKetan. There are important

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Very concerning report - 47 cases of the 501Y.V2 (variant arisen from South Africa) reported in surveillance within the UK. This is the variant with the E484K mutation that has

Lauren Murphey

LRMurphh

Update!As many of you know, I enrolled in the Moderna phase 3 vaccine trial back in August. Now that Moderna has been issues their EUA, I have been unblinded and

Monsieur Prepuce 🕯🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺⚫

MPrepuce

Thread.I’m getting some questions about COVID & vaccines, largely around dosing & new variants. I’ll offer some thoughts here, from a virologist’s perspective.Using 1 dose of a vaccine, and providing

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

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the question of how mink outbreaks can impact vaccines, antibody therapeutics, or diagnostics. How realistic is this concern?The idea is that SARS2 spreading and adapting in large populations of

Mommar

MisterCommodity

Looks like the 2nd half of my family is getting the Rona. Dad had a fever yst that broke within an hour of taking Tylenol Sis in law running a

Curmudgeon Cardiologist

curmudgeoncard

My Unpopular #covid19 PositionThere is lots of info being disseminated to the lay public and amongst the medical community, social media, & the mainstream media. As as a scientist &

Iliev Lab

IlievLab

Delighted to share a new study from our lab on the role of gut commensal fungi mycobiota in shaping the human protective IgG antibody repertoire @CellCellPress https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00059-3 During immunosuppressio

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