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We've written a perspective on a new study by @MAMdayIndayOut that helps explain why some viruses (measles) don't evolve to escape immunity but others (influenza) do. Provides some clues relevant

Lots of recent discussion about #SARSCoV2 re-infections, with 2 pre-prints describing possible examples. To contextualize these re-infections, I'd like to discuss the following papers, which document same-season re-infection with influe

In a new study, we've measured how many children visiting a Seattle hospital have serological evidence of prior infection with #SARSCoV2: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.20114124v1Why is this important and what did we

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

For those wondering if #COVID19 is likely to confer immunity to re-infection or disease, here is an interesting study with a *different* common-cold human coronavirus that attempted to infect and