#Antibody

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 126This isn’t normally my long-thread day, but I started on hospital wards today so this’ll be my biggie this week. I’ll also tweet Grand Rounds
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Understanding the COVID-19 Vaccine and FAQs: A Mega Thread Many of you responded to my tweet about the COVID-19 vaccine. I didn't forget to respond to everyone's questions - I
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 247Fabulous @UCSF Covid Grand Rounds today: @DrPaulOffit @Penn on vaccines, @annieluet on treatments: https://tinyurl.com/y6swyu9e  I’ll start with a few SF & national updates, then summarize
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 329So many competing forces & trends. As dramatic as a thriller, but very decidedly – and tragically – as real as it gets. Everything's leading
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 294Lots to talk about, so today I’ll do an update on things @UCSFHospitals (now adding vaccine rollout), SF and CA. Then quick takes on a
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Will vaccination reduce transmission or just disease?Do 3 vaccines w interim or final phase 3 results (Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Moderna) reduce asymptomatic infections & does reduced symptomatic infection imply reduced infections?Thread
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Covid Epi Weekly: Don’t Ease Up on the Brakes!Variants are coming—but so are vaccines. Let’s double down on protection protocols (masks, distance), scale up equitable vaccine delivery, spur innovation in
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In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected LockdownsBy @jeffreyatucker https://www.aier.org/article/in-the-asian-flu-of-1957-58-they-rejected-lockdowns/ The '57-58 flu is estimated to have killed in one year around 100k Americans, or ab
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1 approach to understanding #covid19 infection is to examine co-morbidities & ask what's common?Most prevalent Cov19 co-morbs:1)age2)Hypertension 3)Diabetes4)Cardiovascular disease 5)Kidney disease6)Chronic respiratory disease (esp
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Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer - mass roll out will take a while but if 90% holds this certainly makes a huge differencehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfize
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1/ One year of destroyed economies, social isolation & deep social splits calls for an anniversary thread to celebrate the RT-qPCR manuscript by Christian Drosten (@c_drosten) & Victor Corman
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Yay our #LongCovid paper is online!!!https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248802v2While we had a few thousand more fill in the survey, this paper focuses on 3,762 #longhaulers (sick >28 days) who got sick between Dec-May
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/07/01/tell-us-think-governments-coronavirus-response/?fbclid=IwAR0CMLHa7c1qLAF1azt-82r2f5U_2DqlXn9MMbwK-mKo_Caxh2F-JzBIiO8 Oh dear. I feel a rant coming on.... 1/ ***RANT ALERT***I am an NHS GP, and
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 322Today, an update on local situation. Then my take on a few issues of the day. There’s some great news, some good news, & some
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1. I'm fascinated by this article, which once again seeks to downplay the role of children and schools in transmission. To quote Detective Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, "I'm getting too old
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Short vaccine : mRNA vaccines (Pfizer vs Moderna) *are very different to* Adenovirus virus vector vaccines (Oxford AZ and Johnson&Johnson). This will matter a lot.Dosing schedule of one, should not
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