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David Leonhardt
DLeonhardt
My first reaction to the news that the coronavirus seems to have spread more widely than known (eg 20% of NYC residents) was optimism. But my conversations with epidemiologists made
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
angie_rasmussen
This is misleading. Serum antibody titers normally fall after you recover from an infection...the high titers induced by the infection decrease to baseline. The implications for immunity are unclear.Here's a
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Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉
sailorrooscout
Immunological memory wins! A recent study shows immunity in convalescent individuals will be VERY long lasting and that convalescent individuals who received an mRNA vaccine produced antibodies and memory B-cells
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Tom Maguire
Tom_Maguire
I hope so but I don't think so. Who thinks they have a shareable expert opinion on Sweden?https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-stockholm-could-see-herd-immunity-in-weeks.html Back in Sweden for a moment, estimating population
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Samuel Brown
DrSamuelBrown
The letter from the treating physician for the US president is emblematic of “VIP medicine”. Almost none of it is a good idea even on its own, and no one
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Women's Health Plus
WomensHealthPl1
HOW IS YOUR BLOOD GROUP AND RHESUS STATUS IMPORTANT IN PREGNANCY? (PART 2)There are times a mother is rhesus negative and the baby is rhesus positive. This is called rhesus
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BDW
BryanDeanWright
The Democratic talking point of “Trump is bad because he hasn’t made more tests available” is not only wrong but misses the point.There is no perfect test, especially an antibody
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DrDinD 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
DrDinD
This great thread reviews a study of 9 German patients looking for viral Sars-cov2 RNA & blood antibodies. Quick summary: •unlike SARS, high production in throat & upper respiratory tract•lots
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Jacob Koella
jacob_koella
It seems that in this #Covid-19 crisis we are sometimes forgetting some basic aspects about interpreting test results, in particular with regard to issuing 'immunity passports'. Immunity passports are a
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Flo Crivello
Altimor
It's funny how first time entrepreneurs worry about giant cos entering their market, and anybody who's worked at a giant co tells them not to worry (cont) The way I
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Dr Ahmed Kalebi
DrAhmedKalebi
I’ve been asked to simplify and explain about this newly identified “vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia” #VITT that is behind the cases of blood clots due to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Please
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C. Michael Gibson MD
CMichaelGibson
Nature: "Shedding of viral RNA from sputum outlasted the end of symptoms. Seroconversion occurred after 7 days in 50% of patients (14 days in all), but was not followed by
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Alex Berenson
AlexBerenson
Wow. Earlier today @WHO - yes, WHO - tweeted a piece of panic porn claiming antibodies didn't - or at the least had not been proven to - confer protection
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Bloom Lab
jbloom_lab
For those wondering if #COVID19 is likely to confer immunity to re-infection or disease, here is an interesting study with a *different* common-cold human coronavirus that attempted to infect and
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Ellen Carmichael
ellencarmichael
University of Miami (FL) has concluded its preliminary COVID-19 study, which found ~165,000 Miami-Dade residents (or 6%) had antibodies, nearly 16x the number of cases reported by the state health
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Buku Haematology 🅰️➕
BukuHaematology
1/12. Red blood cell (RBC) antibody tweetorial. There are over 700 known RBC antigens. Every time someone is exposed to a red cell antigen that they don’t express, usually through
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