#Antibody

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked 13.8 million tests, up 343k from yesterday. 5 states showed a decline in total tests due to separating out their antibody results:

Julio Delgado, MD, MS

ARUP Laboratories begin COVID-19 antibody testing in Utah. We are working to quickly develop testing capability to offer nationally.https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/arup-laboratories-begin-covid-19-antibody-testing-in-utah ARUP’s first COVID-

NEWS: Of the 5603 MLB employees who were tested for Covid-19 antibodies, 0.7% were positive:https://theathletic.com/1763139/2020/05/10/covid-19-antibody-study-of-mlb-employees-finds-that-7-percent-have-had-the-virus/ Anaheim and the two New York team

Corona tests. To clear up confusion. PCR test | Tests for CURRENT INFECTION by detecting virus genetic material. Antigen test | Tests for CURRENT INFECTION by detecting virus protein. Antibody

Dave Blake, PhD

The president is on dexamethasone, a powerful corticosteroid, which is used to minimize the inflammatory portion of the immune response in more severe COVID-19. However, giving it now, 2-3 days

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

There will be no "antibody passports" for a while. Even if an antibody test has a low (say 5%) false positive rate, if YOU get a positive test, it may

A preprint published Monday shows that among 175 recovered COVID-19 patients from Shanghai, 30% showed a low neutralizing antibody response, with 10 patients showing undetectable antibodies. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047365

With all the hype from #Trump and #CoronvirusTaskForce THREAD ON ANTI-BODY TESTING - OPINION ONLY from top doctor I trust. Sharing FWIW: "I know there has been a lot of

Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨

The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue— so @realDonaldTrump wants to ban abortion EXCEPT if

StephTaitWrites

Im seeing A LOT of ppl who were sick sometime between dec - feb saying they're "pretty sure I already had it." Some even suggesting *most* ppl likely had it

Joshua C. Doloff

OMG. Who sent this thing, The Terminator?! (Work just published in @NatureMedicine shows antibody levels decline quickly in 2-3 months across both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.)https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-

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

Arizona has begun antibody testing in their state. So far 3.5% are testing positive. That would mean 255,500 have had coronavirus in state as opposed to 10,526 who have tested

NEW: The first phase of results from a statewide antibody study are in.We collected approximately 3,000 antibody samples from 40 locations in 19 counties.Preliminary estimates show a 13.9% infection rate.

NEWS: 10,000 employees from 27 MLB clubs are participating in the largest Covid-19 antibody study in the United States, researchers and players told the Athletic:https://theathletic.com/1746724/2020/04/14/mlb-team-employees-will-be-the-subjects-of-th

So, #antibodytesting for #coronavirus or also know as Serologic antibody tests, are currently the hot topic. There is a lot of miss understanding here. So much so, even the journals