#Antibodies

Ryan McNamara 🧬

Ryan_Mac_Phd

The J&J vaccine reportedly confers 85% protection after 1 month. Some suggest this could be improved with a booster. About that...J&J vaccine uses a replication-incompetent adenovirus (Ad26) to deliver the

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ This is one of the most interesting pre-prints I have seen this past month. I consider this study in two parts.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.03.367391v1 2/ In the first part, Nussenzweig and colleagues

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Those who follow me know that alarmism isn't my style. But the new UK variant does have me a bit concerned. I'm not qualified to critically assess changes in transmissibility,

Timothée Bruel

Timothee_B

Here is the thread of our new pre-print Sensitivity of infectious SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants to neutralizing antibodies 1/16https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.12.430472v1 In this study, we compared the sensitivity

Health Nerd

GidMK

So, The Big Mask study has been published, and I thought rather than expound on what the results DID show (everyone's doing that), I might point out a few things

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS WILL DETECT THE VARIANT STRAINS(Has quickly become the most frequently asked question....The epitopes targeted are not under selective immune pressure) A bit more nuance. Most rapid antigen

deonandan

deonandan

Despite what Rand Paul says, you can't "throw away your mask" once you've received the COVID vaccine, for *at least* four reasons (thread):1) It takes a couple of weeks to

Dr Philip Lee

drphiliplee1

Thank you, Toby, for providing us a classic example of how to misinterpret seroprevalence data.The stated 68% positive antibody test appears to be from CityMD, an urgent care facility in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

REINFECTION & VACCINE SENSITIVITY—the concern is now growing very very real. This piece highlights the big S Africa CDC report I shared earlier, where antibodies from previously infected don’t

wrc

cpchandme

1). Is there a connection between Fauci and mRNA moderna/other vaccines?First off, there have been multiple observations the covid 19 virus included a spike protein from HIV that apparently IS

Great Barrington Declaration

gbdeclaration

1. Antibodies fade after COVID-19 infection. Does that mean natural immunity fades? How strong will vaccine induced immunity be?That the antibody response fades over time after COVID infections was already

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Huge ANTIBODY study in NYC among 40,000 health care professionals. Key #COVID19 findings:13.7% were seropositive. Of 6078 w/ previous PCR testing, 34.8% were PCR positive. Of previous PCR-positives, 6.5% had

Miguel Hernán

_MiguelHernan

1/ Estimating the infection fatality risk (IFR) of #SARSCoV2 is hard.Our estimates from Spain's #ENECOVID (just published):Men: 1.1% to 1.4%Women: 0.58% to 0.77%After age 80Men: 12% to 16%Women: 4.6% to

Dr Teck Khong

DrTeckKhong

Some mRNA vaccines encode not only the targeted protein antigen to elicit an immune response but also produce their own RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Unknown possible risks of mRNA vaccines include

Luke Hutchison

LH

Received my booster shot for the #Moderna #vaccine Stage 3 clinical trial. Experienced mild fever after the 1st shot, but full-on #COVID-like symptoms for 12hrs after the 2nd shot. Fever,

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