#Antibody

Revelation

SCRAP_IRON_RYAN

The SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 mRNA injection is not a vaccine. A vaccine is a preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion

👊 Angelina Souren - your little sand grain

littlesandgrain

The latest. #coronavirus #science #COVID19 https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25775/rapid-expert-consultation-on-sars-cov-2-laboratory-testing-for-the-covid-19-pandemic-april-8-2020 https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25776/rapid-expert-consultation-on-the-effectiv

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

with virologists. What about Spain, South Korea, California, who have much higher capacities - are they also reliant on Roche? The truth is the govt was sleeping on the wheel

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: The provision in the CARES Act that provides money to build commercial scale manufacturing pre-approval for the most promising #COVID19 drugs, and enables large scale manufacturing and stockpiling of

MS Word Is Free at Harvard

JakeAnbinder

this may be a dumb question but if the NY antibody tests are anything close to right it suggests that the fatality rate may actually be way closer to the

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

I spoke to FDA head @SteveFDA about the decision to issue an EUA (emergency use authorization) for convalescent plasma to treat those currently infected. While promising, it’s been controversial because

Tim Young

TimRunsHisMouth

NONE of the coronavirus predictive models take into account that China let this freely spread at least a month or more before there were travel restrictions from both China AND

Taylor Nichols, MD

tnicholsmd

Nationally, the current doubling time for the spread of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is 3 days. However, with strict physical distancing measures in effect in the Bay

Phil Syrpis

syrpis

I don't know why it took me so long... but, thanks to #Newsnight, I think I've finally worked out why the Govt is saying nothing about its exit strategy. TL;DR

Chris Viox

chrisviox

From New York antibody study, here's the math I did using county populations and Johns Hopkins data. These are just rough estimates. They don't reflect age adjustments (bc I don't

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Tests per million for September, EU:Denmark - 231,566Belgium* - 79,227Spain* - 75,338Finland - 72,010France* - 66,526Ireland - 63,520Netherlands - 57,091Portugal - 56,664Sweden - 55,933Germany - 52,853Estonia - 48,986Lithuania - 48,659Austr

Andre Watson 🧬💊💉

nanogenomic

We know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has evolved to bind to the ACE2 receptor approximately 10x stronger than SARS-CoV-1. ACE2 also circulates in the blood. There are several mechanisms whereby

NIHR Involvement

NIHRinvolvement

We’ve captured some great learnings from #COVID19! Here researcher @PPristera, and public contributors @pips101, @Jegglecreate and @HomeUrs29, tell us about their experience with the REACT studies at @helixcentre @imperialcollegeI @Imperi

Radha Iyengar Plumb

RadhaKIyengar

this is v important tl;dr- antibody testing isn't a panacea. its effectiveness depends on rates of infection and test quality. you can follow the math earlier in the thread or

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

As I warned, Trump’s condition was much more serious than revealed. His condition was deteriorating faster and earlier in the course of illness than is typical in #COVID19. Thus, the

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

Because many are curious about antibody tests and seroprevalence, I figured I'd cover the http://covidtestingproject.org results. This project systematically compared SARSCoV2 (COVID19) antibody kits. If we are going to do