#ANTIBODIES

KizzyPhD

KizzyPhD

Here is the context: you are going to read and hear about a million and one variant viruses, because viruses mutate by nature. It’s scary, I know. But, a couple

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

In contrast to antibody-mediated immunity, T-cell response is extremely long-lived. For example, people infected in 2003 with SARS-1 still mount an immune response to #SARSCoV2 17 years later.(10/13) While there

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

The latest craze: ‘The vaccine hasn’t been shown to prevent transmission’. There are MANY detailed threads on this, but there are some principles which make it nigh-on-impossible for this not

Myles McNulty

MylesMcNulty

Quick recap on @avacta #AVCT's #COVID19 LFT.By the end of next week, the Co intends to have put out a comprehensive TU.Critically, it will include the sensitivity / specificity of

Gupta Lab, Cambridge

GuptaR_lab

Sharing some real world data on antibody responses to the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. We tested serum from 23 participants (median age 82) vaccinated with the first dose 3 weeks previously.

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

How is the #Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine developed?#SARSCoV2 is covered w/Spike proteins that it uses to grab human cells. The vaccine consists of a small genetic material "messenger RNA" that

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

India's seroprevalance survey shows only 21% seropositivity to #Covid19 ,hardly enough to have created herd immunity. Yet cases are falling consistently. There are 3 broad areas we need to work

Josh - Data Analyst in Nashville

ifihadastick

There is an incredibly stupid and and anti-science myth that is circulating around- that there is no immunity post-infection to Covid. Here's a few papers I've read and the summary

Casey Ayers

caseyayers

You’ve probably seen the early word from Pfizer of 90% efficacy for the COVID-19 vaccine developed in coordination with BioNTech. I’d like to talk to you about it this morning,

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Thank you for sending me this paper in Science Immunology (one of many now) showing strong immunity developing in health care workers even after asymptomatic or mild infection. Wanted to

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I'm excited to see our Karnataka sero-prevalence study out in @JAMA_current today. This is part of a longer chain of surveys we've done to track and understand COVID in India

david friedberg

friedberg

The Pandemic War is an actual war we must fight and win. the virus is surging, and evolving. we must surge back, and evolve faster than the virus. here's my

Thinking fast and slow

ElleMandell

1/n: I was reading about Monoclona Antibody treatment -- trying to find injection sites for people. I came across people commenting on the success. I am not using this woman's

Mark Toshner

mark_toshner

Vaccine news coming out of Israel remains positive. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/4d9fe80d-e604-4bbe-b0f8-fd4b8df9b7f1Few comments. 1/n The statements on antibodies are reassuring and in line with the infection profile 2

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

FYI, if you see declarations about new COVID variants evading immunity:1) this isn't about the vaccines, which work against the variants2) the issue is naturally acquired immunity, based on placebo

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—new #B117 variant & vaccine data from research lab shows mutations in B117’s spike protein yields a ~3.8x reduction in efficacy of vaccine-generated neutralization antibodies compared to wildtype (WT)

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