#Antigen

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

Rapid tests are already being used to screen people without symptoms for the coronavirus — even though they're not cleared for this purpose, and the data in asymptomatics is sparse.Some of

Dr. Nadia Chaudhri

DrNadiaChaudhri

I’ve been silent on Twitter for a long time. What I thought was stress-induced abdominal pain turned out to be metastatic ovarian cancer. I was diagnosed in June after major

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

I don’t think I can get it down to kindergartner level, but I’ll shoot for 5th or 6th grade level. Then you can ask me specific questions about things that

J.C. Bradbury

jc_bradbury

Georgia COVID-19, 12/4Cases: 494,354, +6,376 (new high!)Deaths: 9,725, +77Current Hospitalizations: 2,366, +66 New PCR Tests (ELR sample): 38,355, 12.1% positivehttps://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report Almost 6,400 new cases in

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Will do a thread today explaining the different types of covid tests, how they work, and what this means for false positives/negatives.https://fortune.com/2020/11/13/elon-musk-covid-test-tweets/ The first thing is to see what this

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Good and bad news about the Novavax protein subunit vaccine. 90% efficacy in the UK, but only ~50% in South Africa, largely because of the B.1.351 variant. Hopeful news too:

Nik Joshi

Joshilabyale

A tweetorial on our recent pre-print. This work started with a basic question about what B cells and T follicular T cells do in lung cancer. We and others saw

Dr Musa Mohd Nordin

drmusanordin

TQ@SDBIOSENSOR_PR used in Msia is pre-qualified by @WHOValidated by IMR-90% Sensitivity & 100% Specificity.RTK-Ag is an excellent test for contagiousness-detect within 1-2hr-Isolate-Contact Trace.Rapid response to bust clusters/outbreak

Kylie Ainslie

DrKAinslie

Our latest results from the REACT-1 study show that prevalence of #COVID19 is increasing in England. Main results are highlighted below. The full (not yet peer reviewed) pre-print is available

Dr. Amber Schmidtke, PhD

AmberSchmidtke

Georgia readers, here's the latest look at the pandemic in the state. Short version, the state is on fire with COVID-19 and every Georgian needs to grab a bucket of

Andrey Zarur

andreyzarur

Good news today with results from Pfizer/BionNtec. I thought it would be helpful to sum up what that will mean, particularly with regard to mRNA vaccines such as the one

Tay

TaylorQuant

Sorry Darren, too big a question to reply in a single Tweet so you're getting a quick thread I'm at a loss with anything to contribute here now as pretty

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Do memory T cells induced by seasonal coronavirus infection protect us from SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or disease? I attempt to answer this question in this thread. Also at virology blog. (1/n)

Richard Chambers

newschambers

The latest HSE Briefing kicking off now. Paul Reid: Everyone being given a lift by loosening of restrictions...We're looking into winter in three phases of risk: this weekend (restaurants, gastro

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some of the replies to this have made it clear people still think Covid tests are all painful, and would avoid them. That's *not true*. Thisis a swab for a

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/9 Covid Epi Weekly: One Step Forward, One Step BackDecreasing cases in much of country. But decreasing testing, less information, and impending explosions with schools, universities, and more.Primary concern :

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