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Shane Crotty

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1/ Are RNA vaccines safe? I have gotten this question a lot lately, and it is a good question. 2/ First: RNA is messages. At any moment a human cell

1/ Our pre-print on immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 is out today. To our knowledge, this is the largest such study for any acute infection. The upshot is that there is

1/ Our newest COVID-19 immunology work is online today at Cell! @ljiresearch https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31235-6 2/ We aimed to better understand hospitalized COVID-19 cases by examining virus-specific immune responses

1/ The second COVID-19 vaccine trial results have been released. 94.5% estimated efficacy! Outstanding news. These are Moderna vaccine results, independent of the Pfizer results a week ago. So there

1/ This is a truly excellent and important outcome. Greater than 90% efficacy at preventing disease, with 94 COVID-19 cases to evaluate, is an excellent outcome! It would be good

5/ I got a number of questions yesterday related to COVID-19 vaccines, vaccines in general, and the Pfizer clinical trial interim results, so I will answer several of the big

1/ There are various tweets misinterpreting COVID-19 “pre-existing immunity” and making dangerous claims about herd immunity. Since many of those claims refer to our scientific papers, we will reiterate the

1/ Recently, major media outlets in the US and France have mischaracterized our COVID-19 T cell findings. We have now published a summary of current knowledge to correct this.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0389-z 2/

3/ Our paper found T cells in ~50% of unexposed people that could recognize SARS-CoV-2. This observation was important because it MAY impact people’s responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection, or COVID-19

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