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Varun C. MD, DM
drcheruvarun
Ok, took me a few days to properly process the stunning results of the Delhi serosurvey. Unfortunately we only have a press conference with a few slides telling us that
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Health Nerd
GidMK
Lots of people are still comparing the COVID-19 death rate with influenza ("it's only as deadly as the flu!")This is very misleadingIf you compare apples to apples, COVID-19 is MUCH
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Dr. Rick Pescatore
Rick_Pescatore
PCR false-negative rate is not insignificant Plaquenil data gets less whelming by the dayrapid serology tests may help provide important answers, but come with their own pitfallsnew COVID framework of
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
If we're going to manage a #TestTraceIsolate solution to the #COVID19 epidemic, we need a massive scale up in testing. There are some really exciting initiatives here. 1/9 According to
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
The next wave of diagnostic testing is for antibodies to #COVID29 Countries already on it or starting: Germany, Netherlands, UK, Singapore, South Korea, ChinaCountry with no plan: UShttps://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/04/02/an-antib
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne
jmcrookston
Kids catch coronaviruses. Quick thread of a review article about two cold coronas that we knew about in 1974 when this article was written.The article also says CoVs are airborne
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
I was asked yesterday why we hear so little about T-cell immunity to coronaviruses & to SARS-CoV-2. As they observed, while there are various estimates ranging 20-50% possessing this immune
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Jessica Watson
drjessicawatson
So much in the media about #COVIDー19 testing, it seems important to correct some misconceptions. Thread Two types of test:Viral RNA tests - RT-PCR - swab tests - to detect
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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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A Marm Kilpatrick
DiseaseEcology
Looking for badly misleading #COVID19 serology data?New paper in top journal http://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30631-9/fulltext & new online tool: http://serotracker.com/Dashboard I *hope* it will get be
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Federico Andres Lois
federicolois
1/ Our preprint with @LDjaparidze is online at @medrxivpreprint"SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution"https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.09.20210146v1 2/ We extended the SEIRS model to support s
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Peaceful Warrior
Peaceful4812
Well, well, well what do we have here https://dominiondiagnostics.com/covid-19-total-antibody-serology-testing Dominon is also connected to the antibody testing eh! I Am going to go out on a limb here and
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Bloom Lab
jbloom_lab
We've written detailed protocol on neutralization assays for #SARSCoV2 at biosafety-level-2 using lentiviral pseudotype, and put key reagents (293T-ACE2 cells, plasmids) in BEI Resources repository. Most labs should be able
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Will Fithian
wfithian
The authors said by email that they used a built-in Stata function and aren't sure themselves how the software used the input weights. I suspect they misapplied that function (too
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🌱sprout⁷ ⟭⟬ koobicore zine! 🖤💜🌱
galaxysprout
I'M RLY OUT HERE ABOUT TO MAKE A BTS X CLINICAL LAB AUhttps://twitter.com/iliacquer/status/1285212232293527552 OKAY HERE GOES:basically like the office but in the clinical lab, just day-to-day shenanigans of 20-somethings doing
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺
fascinatorfun
Again. The biggest problem with opening up the economy and life is identifying ESPECIALLY the asymptomatic transmitters (Maybe responsible for c44% of transmissions).Test early symptomatic and super fast tracing of
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