#Immune

Conor Harris

Conor_Harris_

A thread on the relationship between the brain & immune system. This is very important during this time period!A healthy stress-response system is constantly adjusting its level of activation of

Monkey Anon

DazeDonkey

Did you know avoiding germs makes you weak. Masks and sanitizer is the equivalent of benching your star player. You immune system has to encounter germs to know how to

Tim Walker

ThatTimWalker

R rate is still ‘close to 1’ here. Across the Irish Sea, it’s between 0.4 and 0.5 - half our rate - and yet Ireland is unlocking a lot more

Meghan Azad, PhD

MeghanAzad

Great journal club by @basbees on this paper by @ShikaRamanan et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.030Multiple results: 1/n1) Cross-fostering experiments (did I mention I these?!) show immune phenotype is vertically transferred

Jeremy "The French Overlord" Veysseire

JeremyVeysseire

As a preview of this week's episode but also as a continuation of the topic at hand: Powerful Lumineth Mechanics without Teclis. Combo A:Voice of the Mountain Spell + Cathalar.A

Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC

MPaiMD

LONG week on call @HamHealthSci. Lots of calls about #VITT post AZ vaccine. I'm transparent w my patients - I believe empowerment leads to earlier detection, better outcomes, less stress.

Nan Hayworth, M.D.

NanHayworth

(Thread) Dr. Madej's assertions are unsupported by science. In short, she's wrong. About a lot of things.Before we talk about vaccines, let's take a minute to talk about how viruses

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/CA lot of COVID-19 contrarians abuse the idea of "cross-reactivity" to make SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) look less dangerous than it really is. Many of them do this

Amy Harmon

amy_harmon

I wrote this because I'm fascinated by the emerging immune v not-immune-to-#COVID19 social divide. But many readers are expressing skepticism about the premise, that people who recover from infection with

Rachel Wattier

RachelWattier

#PedsTID #IDWeek2020 Exploring Viral Infections in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation Through a New Lens Dr. Klara Posfay-Barbe @posfay "The Time Has Come: Bringing Live Viral Vaccination into the Post-transplant period

Eric Topol

EricTopol

The variants of concern/interest fall into a spectrum of immune evasiveness, w/ B.1.351 being most; B.1.1.7, B.1.429 least. This property pertains to potential for reinfection & some reduction in vaccine

K.O. | 🇳🇬

KolaOyeneyin

So I was speaking to someone in Nigeria yesterday and asked why he goes around freely without wearing a mask. He said “I am covered by the blood bro”. I

Michal Elovitz MD

DocElovitz

Calling on the brilliant twitter minds on #vaccine #pregnancy #placenta #mrna #immunology #fetalLet's talk SarsCOV2 vaccine and pregnancy 1/ it is acknowledged that pregnant and lactating people were NOT included

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

The COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease May Be Twice As Contagious As We ThoughtBad news if true, but explains a lot.“The new study, published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, shifts the

Guy Gadboit

gadboit

Plain English thread on how VITT might work, according to the latest Greinacher findings https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-440461/v1. One of your immune system's jobs is to deal with infections like colds and flus.

Bassam Osman, MD

_bosman_

Where is my COVID 19 vaccine?More than 170 research teams racing.A thread about progress and concerns: First, the vaccine should pass through testing and trials:1.Preclinical: tested on animals, to test