#Antigen

Lisa Song

lisalsong

1/ I've seen that a lot of you think rapid antigen tests can keep your Thanksgivings safe. But it’s not that simple. These tests have been known to give false

Neil Floch MD

NeilFlochMD

How a #vaccine works: when we get #covid19 we make #antibodies and #Tcells. A #vaccine introduces #antigens: heat-killed, parts of #virus, #mrna that makes virus #spike into our bodies to

deej

deejitarian

Why is Pfizer allowed to call this treatment a “vaccine”? It’s a cellular immunotherapy. It interacts directly with a person’s genetic material at the intracellular level, unlike traditional vaccines, con’t.

James Krellenstein

jbkrell

So the @Novavax results showing 90% vs. 49% efficacy make the results of the @JNJNews results even more exciting. JNJ is evaluating their Ad26 vaccine in S Africa as

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

For anyone wondering what a best-in-class rapid antigen test looks like. This is the @AbbottNews PanBio rapid antigen test. If you lift up the plastic top (which is cheap) it

Aaron Goodman

AaronGoodman33

Cold Blood (short Tweetorial)#Goodman_heme3 confusing diseases1. Cold agglutinin disease 2. Cryoglobulinemia3. Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuriaTwo of these disease are seen often on both the heme consult service and boards. Cold Agglutinin

Beh G.

OracleOfIberia

I have tweeted several times about sensitivity of PCR tests and potential for false positives.There's increasing evidence that supports this theory and it's time we start taking this issue more

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

PCR positivity detected after symptom onset rarely reflects replicating likely contagious virus.PCR remains + for so longIn @NatureComms van Kampen et al. show this well. Look at how few PCR

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Short THREAD. On False POSITIVES of rapid antigen tests. This is on SPECIFICITY or the issues of False POSITIVES and rapid antigen tests. Many people are concerned that these

plaforscience

plaforscience

We predicted Spain's miraculous last weeks, we told shifting from PCR to rapid test was forcing descends.Now, thru official data analysis we can show how 'cases' and positivity follow the

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

NEW on Rapid Tests!Exceptional data that should help path to at-home highly accurate rapid testsIn over 860 samples tested w ⁦@AbbottNews⁩ BinaxNOW, only ONE was falsely positive! The Specificity was

K. Taylor, Ph.D., M.S.

KYT_ThatsME

I just saw the statement from Kayleigh, the press secretary said about repeatedly testing negative and now testing positive and some folks seem confused. So I guess it’s time to

Anupam Singh

anupampom

A thread on Rapid Antigen testing in community.All members of Bachhan Household were tested by Rapid Antigen test when Amitabh, Abhishek became http://Symptomatic.Rest were ASymptomatic Amitabh, Abhishek turned Positive and

#IfScientistsAndThePeopleTrustedGovernment

CaribeWellness

Know Your COVID Tests; Don't Get DupedThere are different types of tests for COVID. - PCR (this tests for the genes of the virus. Very similar to looking for DNA

Joana Faria

JoanaRCF

Thrilled to see our paper out today in @NatureMicrobiol showing that spatial integration of transcription and splicing in a dedicated sub-nuclear compartment sustains singular antigen expression in trypanosomes.https://www.nature.com/articl

Matias Kaplan

matias_kaplan

Elon Musk's testing tweet is pretty dumb but shows how testing probabilities can be tough. Musk likely was using the BD Veritor antigen test (if I'm wrong please correct me).

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