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Philipp Koellinger
PKoellinger
1/4 Interesting: A wet lab study from Germany suggests that some degree of limited background immunity against #COVID19 may exist in the population (~1/3 of their healthy donor sample) due
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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.
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James Todaro, MD
JamesTodaroMD
1/ An unknown side effect of lengthy lockdowns may be decreased crossover immunity to COVID-19.Research on SARS-CoV-1 suggests that lack of exposure to the common cold coronaviruses could actually worsen
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Jeff (BPredict)
BPredict
A lot of vaccines are not 100% effective. If COVID-19 vaccines are like flu vaccines, we'll just never have sports ever again?https://twitter.com/xavierjoe517/status/1243589224974163968 The reality is that at some point this
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James Todaro, MD
JamesTodaroMD
1/ Hong Kong reports the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection today.Although it is only a single case, it supports the theory that T-cell immunity (as opposed to antibodies) may
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Taiwan Formosa Club š
taiwanformosan
Based on #2019nCoV therapy review (https://f1000research.com/articles/9-72/v2), further evidence was found in the 6 genetic variants associated with higher ratio of ACE2 cells. This weaponized coronavirus appears to be optimized for
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David R. Liu
davidrliu
A key piece of the #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 origin puzzle emerges: where did the virus's unusual spike protein RBDāthe receptor-binding domain that engages human ACE2 protein and allows the virus to
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Megan McArdle
asymmetricinfo
Yeah, I've seen several people confidently stating "Humans have never successfully made a coronavirus vaccine", which just isn't true; we have them for animal diseases. And we've never had such
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Darren of Plymouth š¬š§
DarrenPlymouth
A paper published by the US Army on the Flu vaccine given to soldiers in 2017/18, stated a severe reaction was observed in the soldiers that naturally came across coronavirus,
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SJ. Puechmaille
Bats_Chiroptera
Some people say "#SARSCoV2 comes from bats". The estimated time of divergence for SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 (the closest 'relative' know from #bats) is 1969 (95% HPD: 1930-2000). So in other
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Josh Rogin
joshrogin
This @NBCNews report on their field trip to Wuhan Institute of Virology has several errors, but the most glaring is that it misrepresents what U.S. officials wrote in diplomatic cables
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
Over the last weeks, a substantial amount of new evidence has become available about immunity to #SARSCoV2. This information can be difficult to process and integrate. As such I felt
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Danny Boy
Care2much18
What she said in her speech is like a rundown of conspiracy theories and complete myths, and anyone holding those views shouldn't have any position of influence in society.I'll just
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Dr Pieter Peach
DrPieterPeach
Just came across the opinion of somebody deeply respected in health that I need to address.John Ioannidis makes some good points but unusual & major errors in his comparison of
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Florian Krammer
florian_krammer
1) We now often hear about 'universal coronavirus vaccines' in the media. I think development of a universal coronavirus vaccine is an important goal that may be achievable in the
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EveJustWantedToKnowShitā³
myfinewords
THREAD:I've been seeing so many Californians say thisāand my ex, my Papa and I were all really sick at the end of December, tooāthat I decided to do some digging...https://twitter.com/rednexican2020/status/1245415549133156352
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