#Immunity

I'm rapidly losing my temper with the media. Primary response antibodies are a pisspoor mesure of immunity and the presense of antigen specific T cells are quite literally the entire
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Listen people if you genuinely can’t wish an ill person to get better, silence is an available option. He was following the herd immunity theory of science advisors. He shouldn’t
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1/16On May 21st 2010, 3 University of Arizona police officers responded to a “welfare check” about a person hacking a tree with a knife. When they arrived on-scene they witnessed
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A popular phrase umong the type of right wing dipshits who fill Ash Sarkers's mentions is "All the left does it criticise. You have no solutions"As if things like UBI,
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There's an important #vaccine threshold you may not be aware of. This thread will give you a primer on "Critical Vaccine Coverage". Call it CVC.CVC is the coverage needed to
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I don’t like Boris Johnson but I think we can all agree that him being sick is funny Dude pushed an insane, do-nothing “herd immunity” plan then promptly ate shit.
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It would be a mistake to go straight to the question of whether the policy articulated in the president’s draft executive order, which sets out to limit immunity for social
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1/ Q: I hear there has been a confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 re-infection in Hong Kong?! How worried should I be?A: Not very.In the words of immunologist Dr. Akiko Iwasaki,
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BREAKING: Senior White House Official Tells CNN All Americans Will Get COVID-19; White House Position That Pandemic Mitigation Is Over and "Herd Immunity" Is Now Policy Is Consistent With Prior
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MUST WATCH: Doctors sharing data saying that its time we allow ppl to resume normal life & develop resistance to virus Initially the world had reacted to the unknown &
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I wrote a paper about the herd immunity (the phenomenon, not the policy) that results from epidemic spread years ago with fantastic co-authors @bansallab @laurenmeyers @BjornstadOttar … none of us
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Ever wondered why there are cases where apparantly young individuals are succumbing to COVID-19 whereas older people are recovering very well? Here we need to understand that immunity boosting and
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A large seroprevalence study found that we may be underestimating number of COVID cases in the US by 10-fold. What does this mean?Thread/1) First, this is a great study. Read
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Back in March, as the UK government pursued "herd immunity", the Irish government imposed an early lockdown to save lives. Excellent piece by @CaelainnH on why Ireland is enduring far
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There is clearly a desperation to leave the lockdown behind. The economic impact is horrendous and the social and psychological consequences potentially serious. But because there's no easy way to
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Let’s talk about herd immunity. Are some cities and regions acquiring it sooner than expected and thus have higher than expected protection against Covid-19?https://trib.al/ACe2r0n  The evidence for herd immunity can
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