#Immunity

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

Do some people have cross-reactive antibodies to #SARSCoV2? If so, who are they? And are these cross-reactive Abs protective against #COVID19? A fascinating study by @KevinWNg et al provides answers.

Hector Drummond

hector_drummond

The UK govt has only three strategies with Covid. Herd immunity/live with it, lockdown for total elimination, or lockdown until a vaccine is found.1/9 But the last is just suicidal

OUTLAW 09

rich_outlaw

WHAT THIS THREAD MEANS FROM CHINESE RESEARCHERS IS THAT THEY DID NOT SEE A HIGH LEVEL OF IMMUNITY IN RECOVERED PATIENTSAND THAT CAN LED TO REINFECTIONS AND THE NECESSITY TO

Alex is declustering crises

alxrdk

Some Interesting points in the _preliminary_ results on representative antibody testing in Heinsberg, the region with the first larger #COVID19 outbreak in Germany.https://twitter.com/hbergprotokoll/status/1248174994816991232 Study asked 600 househol

A Rahsaan in the Sun

rahsaandhall

Cop posted @ me re #QualifiedImmunity "No guarantee of indemnification. Cops will become paid observers or be sued for every action they take. Seems that’s what u want & u

Persistent Woman

PixMichelle

John Bolton will save us all. Hear me out, ok?Bolton is a GOP sweetheart, and career Republicans especially love him. He certainly garners more respect in conservative circles than Trump,

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ There are various tweets misinterpreting COVID-19 “pre-existing immunity” and making dangerous claims about herd immunity. Since many of those claims refer to our scientific papers, we will reiterate the

Paul Saladino, MD

CarnivoreMD

Now is the time for the young and metabolically healthy to be exposed to SARS CoV2. Herd immunity is the way forward. This virus isn’t going to just disappear. Manage

James Ward

JamesWard73

HI thread Mark II: after I tweeted last week about Herd Immunity (HI), quite a lot of people got in touch to point out that my model was either over-estimating

Garreth McDaid

garrethmcdaid

In June, a German study looked at pre-Covid blood donations from across blood groups and found that 81% had T cells consistent with immunity to #COVID19 . Immunity means you

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Earlier today we tweeted about a new WHO scientific brief on "immunity passports". The thread caused some concern & we would like to clarify:We expect that most people who are

Stephanie M. Lee

stephaniemlee

SCOOP: Here's something new about that Stanford COVID-19 antibody study.In an email I obtained, the wife of the professor leading it recruited people by saying an “FDA approved” test (it's

Paul Bernal

PaulbernalUK

On this blog edit story, let’s be clear what Cummings is trying to do: distance himself from the herd immunity plan.The claim that he was specifically and explicitly warning about

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Hannah Meisel

hannahmeisel

A hospitalization update:Covid-19 patients hospitalized statewide: 3,680/We have 28,000 hospital beds in IL (not including alternate care facilities like McCormick Place, Vibra Hosp in SPI), 2,700 of which are ICU

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Yesterday, @nytimes published an article titled "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare."I wish this statement were true. But it is not only inaccurate, it may lead to dangerous