#Disease

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

To be clear:What we know about the mRNA vaccines (from the clinical trials):1) They produce antibodies to the spike protein.2) They reduce very mild to moderate disease in a healthy

Tom Lewis

invadingpirate

1/n. Some data on how test performance interacts with local epidemiology 2/n Test performance assumptions 3/n. Epidemiology 4/n PPV and NPV now 5/n PPV and NPV at peak in December

Shaun Hendy

hendysh

Unfortunately the report by the @NZprocom referred to in this story seems to have been based on a misunderstanding of disease dynamics. I am glad their advice wasn’t followed. 1/Nhttps://nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

COVID Vaccines1) A vaccine doesn’t need to prevent infection altogether. It just needs to prevent severe disease and/or deaths. 2) Antibody levels may not correlate with efficacy3) T cell responses

Aaron Goodman

AaronGoodman33

Cold Blood (short Tweetorial)#Goodman_heme3 confusing diseases1. Cold agglutinin disease 2. Cryoglobulinemia3. Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuriaTwo of these disease are seen often on both the heme consult service and boards. Cold Agglutinin

Yoong

yoongkhean

Some info on vaccine efficacy. We tend to make the mistake of 95% efficacy (Pfizer) being 95 out of 100 is protected from the disease while 5 out of 100

Dr Able Lawrence🦉MD DM

abledoc

Here is a thread on what people with heart disease should consider before taking vaccine 1/nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk from COVID19 not only due to heart

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Please allow me to go back to this question of "do vaccines prevent transmission?". What do vaccines do? Stimulate antibody (from B cells) and T cell responses (not often measured)

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

QEPrize

Hello everyone! I'm Esther Odekunle (@EstOdek) and today I'll be tweeting from @QEPrize to take you on a journey of what being an antibody engineer is all about. Hold on

Jennifer Williams

JenWilliamsMEN

On pillar 2. There’s been a bit of a mystery around the ‘gdpr’ problem that meant this data didn’t go to councils. One public health official says they reckon Deloitte

J. Michael Straczynski

straczynski

This is an important point to make: 1) There have only been about 5 confirmed reinfections out of 30+ million, 2) Vaccines *don't prevent reinfection* and never have. What they

Dr. Mikki Brock

MikkiBrock

My younger sister, who has been very ill with COVID over the past week, including pneumonia, asked me to share this as she is not on social media. For anyone

Chinaks♛Chris

ChinaksChris_

Many today are starving for food, many are hungry but there is another kind of hunger. The hunger to be loved nd hunger to be recognized, nakedness is not just

Health Nerd

GidMK

People: we're miscounting COVID-19 deaths! We're counting anyone WITH the disease, not people who die of itMe, a clever scientist: ...but that's how we count all deaths? Some people get

Sarah Newey

sneweyy

Breaking: GPs are now able to use vaccine doses that were being wasted. Vials of the Pfizer jab was expected to include 5 doses- it turns out you can squeeze

Dr Mark Guthridge

Dr_M_Guthridge

1/ How neglected is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research?@NIH funding for ME/CFS in 2017 was ~$25millFair funding relative to disease burden should be ~$350millThat means #MECFS research was short-changed

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