#Antibodies

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

New exciting collaboration work with @Aaronmring lab reveals diverse and functional autoantibodies in #COVID patients. Our findings provide clues for why COVID affects many organs, induce range of symptoms that

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ Our pre-print on immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 is out today. To our knowledge, this is the largest such study for any acute infection. The upshot is that there is

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: #COVID19 vaccines will probably prevent you from getting sick. No one knows yet whether they will keep you from spreading the virus to others — that information may be

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

After posting our pre-print mapping #SARS_CoV_2 mutations that escape Regeneron antibodies, been getting questions about implications for therapies/vaccines. I'd like to contextualize results. Summary is don't be alarmed, but pay

Nicola Bidoli 🛡🛡🛡

BidoliNicola

Glycans / Sugars / Spike Protein /The Secret action of C19 1/19 This is mainly because HIV co-opts its host's cellular mechanism to cover itself with human glycans.

WheeledPatriot2

WPatriot2

Time to dispell some bullshitDid you know that in the hotspot states where Corona is supposedly breaking out like wildfire that the CDC has been combining virus tests and antibody

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

NEWS: @US_FDA is in the final stages of issuing an EUA for convalescent plasma treatments.Will this change everything? No.Will it be helpful? Probably. Is there contraversy? Of course.Follow if interested.

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

There are now several studies out there that together give a useful indication of the possible role of pre-existing immunity (antibodies/T-cells etc.) in SARS-CoV-2 dynamics. A few thoughts/links... 1/ First,

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) This morning, I shared an enthusiastic tweet about Pfizer's interim results with their COVID-19 vaccine. Let me explain here why am I am so enthusiastic, how the road to

J. Michael Straczynski

straczynski

This is an important point to make: 1) There have only been about 5 confirmed reinfections out of 30+ million, 2) Vaccines *don't prevent reinfection* and never have. What they

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Lots of new variant news - yes, they are more infectious likely due to higher viral loads in nose/mouth but not more "virulent" (not likely to make people more sick)

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

In our epidemiology course for journalists, I used this as example of selection bias & uncritical journalistic reporting.Here are a few headlines in Indian media screaming that 15% of Indians

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

What's the scoop on coronavirus vaccines? Follow this thread and read our story to get the essentials. 1/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fauci-optimistic-about-covid-19-vaccines-though-immunity-unknowns-complicate-development

Casanova Lab

casanova_lab

We show that neutralizing autoantibodies to type I IFNs underlie a third of the life-threatening adverse reactions to yellow fever virus live-attenuated virus (YFV 17D): https://rupress.org/jem/article/218/4/e20202486/211761/Auto-antibodies

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Study showing that children can be infected with #SARSCoV2, but still test negative.Two parents infected their 3 children, who tested negative 11 times (NP swab PCR test). Antibody blood tests

Michelle Boyle

DrMichelleBoyle

Back at work in 2021 and pleased to share our paper on subsets of T follicular helper cells which drive induction of functional antibodies in humans with malaria 1/https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(20)30204-4#.X

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