#Antibody

Izabella Kaminska

izakaminska

Amazing what is going on with narratives that justify ever more draconian policies.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55536762 1. Lockdowns China did would never be acceptable in a democracy.2. Covid is really scary and we

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

How does the immune system work? Will there be #COVID19 vaccines? @BioRender & I put together ‘immunology 101 tweetorial for non-immunologists’. @jerryguartist, @shizaoki, @JungHeeSciViz also made this accompanying video. Please

Stuart Ray

soupvector

OP swab obtained in Milan #Italy on 5 Dec 2019 from a 4yo boy (measles suspected, d14 of Sx) positive for #SARSCoV2 RNA (GenBank https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MW303957). Lab reportedly SCV2-free, finding repeated,

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

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing

Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil

AbdulElSayed

When you read #COVID19 headlines like this, the key takeaways should be that:1) we’re not testing enough2) we’re testing the wrong people3) asymptomatic & low symptomatic spread are a big

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Mutation “feat never seen before”...UPDATE on UK strain of #SARSCoV2 & how it evolved so fast:Variant B.1.1.7 (aka VUI-202012-01) has 23 mutations—but acquired suddenly 17 mutations “all at once”—which

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. An #Ebola thread:@WHO has put out an update on the new cases in DRC, in the part of the country where the 2018-2020 North Kivu & Ituri outbreak took

Maureen Fitzsimmons

mojos55

ONE of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals has published a damning attack on the UK Government, saying “science is being suppressed for political and financial gain” in

SMangold46804

mangold46804

1/ Happy Thursday! Here is an interesting Pediatric Neurology #MedTweetorial case. A 12 y/o female presents to the office with visual concerns. 3 days ago, her right eye became progressively

Samuel Brown

DrSamuelBrown

I'm thinking more about the Pfizer vaccine (and grateful for those who have clarified some key points). First, I agree that early efficacy (right after the second injection) prevents infection

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

HermisHuman

Andy_Redd

The South African serology results from the @Novavax vaccine trial drastically need more clarification. From the protocol posted in their Phase 2 results it appears they used an in-house ELISA

Jasnah Kholin - ACAB

wanderer_jasnah

*puts on hard hat, respirator, asbestos gloves* (hey i haven't used these in awhile!)okay. i'm seeing the same claims on my TL over & over that quite frankly, make no

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Connecting the dots between RSV, F, erection, S, and 2P's 1. The @McLellan_Lab work on RSV virus to stabilize the F protein (which may lead to successful vaccines)From https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year @NewYo

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

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