#Antigen

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

DHSC has published the results of its trial of lateral flow tests – the one it is going with for mass testing is the Innova antigen assay. A thread (and

Rachel Wasserman, PhD

r_m_wasser

My 6 year old daughter had #COVID. It was mild, she's fine, and others in the family are negative. Still, it was NOT easy. I’m a mom and a pediatric

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Right. Deep Breath. RT-PCR "false positives" and Ct numbers (again). tl;dr it is complex, but the RT-PCR testing systems deployed across the world are sound and the people who run

kary

paperkary

I'm not a journalist or a scientist. I am a person who had Covid-19 and experienced / learned some crazy things about the ever-changing science, policy, and tech. And lack

Kate Allen

katecallen

On Tuesday, when Premier Doug Ford announced that Ontario was rolling out new rapid tests for COVID, he called them "game changers" FIVE separate times. Five!!Is that what the province's

Nour AlMozain,MD نور هشام المزيّن

NourAlmozain

#blooducation December gift from @bloodbankguy about transfusion-transmitted infection. In this thread, let's reflect & contrast the controversial points nationally in & internationally.https://twitter.com/bloodbankguy/status/1

Not a cat

navdhad

Doing a thread on my ski trip to Gulmarg, and some bits on Pahalgam and Srinagar. Some pictures and recommendations too. Save, RT or better still plan your travels to

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Big news today about another vaccine candidate. Take home messages:-It's safe-It's immunogenic (neutralizing antibodies and antigen-specific T cells)-It's a good size (n=1077 patients, 543 of whom got the vaccine vs

Zoë McLaren, PhD

ZoeMcLaren

Scaling up rapid screening tests for COVID-19 is well within reach. They can help keep the virus at bay until a vaccine is available. My piece in The @ConversationUS explains.

MEGALabGroup

MEGALabGroup

1/14 Excited to share our work on experimental evolution of pneumococcus in mouse infection models. The result of a big effort from the whole lab, but led by @GreenAngharad and

Debbee Hutchinson

DebbeeHutchins1

Moderna & Pfizer/BioNTech are testing mRNA (synthetic RNA)vaccines to be rolled out experimentally on millions of people around the world using synthetic RNA mRNA vaccines are a genetically modified biohack

Dr Jake Suett

jakesuett

Managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 @NICEComms Important day for managing Long COVID with the publication of new NICE guidelines. Some excellent parts of the guidance and a few things

Matt Hall

cispt2

So here's an update on the abandoned UQ COVID vaccine named UQ-CSL v451https://www.uq.edu.au/news/node/127942 First, the release states that the vaccine worked: vaccine elicited a response and "There were no serious

Melissa Chen

MsMelChen

This is interesting. If true, it might explain why there are so few deaths and cases in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos despite many connections to Wuhan.These countries are next to

Spencer Cox

SpencerJCox

Can we talk about testing for a minute? As you know, from day one of this virus we have been doing everything we can to increase testing in our state.

Andrew Lover

AndrewALover

New UK strain of #COVID19 (B1.1.7) Suggested that it's 70% more transmissible. What if this is a "side effect" of massive levels of testing? Surely mass testing/diagnostics can't drive

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