#Antibody

Kara Hartnett

kara_nashpost

I received my first injection today for the AstraZeneca vaccine trial. I joined because science is the only exit out of this pandemic and I wanted to help articulate the

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

“Pandemic anxiety has turned lately to the question of viral evolution—the possibility that the disease might be outracing our efforts to contain it.” Of all the new strains, the Brazilian

Marion Holman

holmanm

1/23 Thoughts on Covid Vaccine: First of all, up until this point there has never been a successful vaccine for coronaviruses in humans, due to a problem typical of coronavirus

Are you up4BUIA? (Bottom-Up Interdisciplinarity)

Seempleetoo

"They all developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and a significant T cell response detectable up to 69 days after symptom onset... Six out of eight contacts developed a SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell response

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I believe the incoming #COVID19 vaccines tend to be effective and safe. I also predict widespread vaccination campaigns will save lives. Though, I doubt vaccines will significantly shorten the timeline

micky finn

critpraxis

Even if you buy their death count and case count: According to the latest immunological studies, the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) of covid-19 in the general population is about

chakkaravarthy

drkrvcvijay

#CovidVaccine thread.@rameshlaus @sumanthraman @priyankathiru @dhanyarajendran US,UK, Canada had started their COVID vaccinations as expected .Probably our Government may get the vaccinations by January and reach private market by March for

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

I'm pro-vax as a concept, but many of u need to be more thoughtful about math. Vax is NOT 95% effective. It's a stats trick. Very few in *control group*

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Oxford-AstraZeneca not only protects people from serious illness and death but also substantially slows the transmission of #SARSCoV2, finding thr #COVID19 vaccine cuts transmission by nearly 2/3rds (pre print). It

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Novavax has shared prelim efficacy data by press release:https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-demonstrates-893-efficacy-uk-phase-390% overall, 50% in S Africa (60%) in HIV-.But there's more.

Ray Armat, Ph.D.

RayArmat

1/5Important Unbiased Cautions About Genetic mRNA #Coronavirus Vaccines:1) They Genetically modify our cytoplasm to make the antigen, a COVID-looking Spike Protein which then triggers our OWN BODY's adaptive immune response

Kelly Doran MD MHS

KellyMDoran

Really important new study on seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among people living in precarious housing situations (including shelters) in Ile de France. A thread. https://epicentre.msf.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/High_seroprevalence_of_

gggg21

gggg2120

I am just in absolute awe of #NCYT with the below. “Bridged the gap between single cartridge and 96 well plate” to do these tests are now basically as simple

Eric Escobar

eresc79

Exponential growth of #COVID19BC cases in recent weeks continues. 1/ The growth in cases started in Fraser and is now spreading to Vancouver. 2/ More concerning is the expansion of

CE Bick

CarolynBick

BREAKING: @GovInslee has announced that King County and a few others in two of the state's eight regions are eligible to move to Phase 2 in the state's reopening plan.

Sam Freedman

Samfr

Last week I did a round-up thread on COVID stats/reports which people seemed to find useful so I thought I'd make it a weekly thing... Positive news first. Lockdown continues

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