Covid Expert Tweets Weekly Digest #3
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Before getting to the top links from the last week, some big positive breaking news was just announced. The New York Times reports Pfizer’s early data shows vaccine is more than 90% effective.
Top Links from last 7 days
Nov 03 • Nature | 26 expert tweets ->
Repeated cross-sectional sero-monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City
In late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in China and has since caused a pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The first COVID-19 case in New York City (NYC) was officially confirmed on March 1st 2020 followed by a severe local epidemic.1 To understand seroprevalence dynamics, we conducted a...
Nov 06 • Science | 22 expert tweets ->
Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans
Zoonotic introduction of novel coronaviruses may encounter preexisting immunity in humans. Using diverse assays for antibodies recognizing SARS-CoV-2 proteins, we detect preexisting humoral immunity. SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (S)-reactive antibodies were detectable by a flow cytometry-based method in SARS-CoV-2-uninfected individuals and...
Nov 02 • YouTube | 22 expert tweets ->
Herd Immunity as a Coronavirus Pandemic Strategy - November 6, 2020, 3:20P Central US
Would letting coronavirus infect the broad US and global population be a safe and effective means of ending the COVID-19 pandemic? Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD,...
Nov 02 • 20 expert tweets ->
Age specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-Cov-2 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0
Nov 02 • Science | AAAS | 19 expert tweets ->
Europe is locking down a second time. But what is its long-term plan?
New measures seek to lower the spread of the coronavirus, but some scientists say Europe should eliminate it
Nov 04 • 17 expert tweets ->
Nov 02 • DW.COM | 14 expert tweets ->
Belgium's COVID-19 health care collapse: 'It will happen in 10 days' | DW | 30.10.2020
More than 300,000 of Belgium's 11 million people have COVID-19 right now. The president of Belgium's medical union tells DW how desperate and precarious the country's health system has become.
Nov 02 • 13 expert tweets ->
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-the-coronavirus-hacks-the-immune-system
Nov 02 • 13 expert tweets ->
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-the-coronavirus-hacks-the-immune-system
Nov 03 • 12 expert tweets ->
Nov 05 • Nature Immunology | 9 expert tweets ->
Distinct antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in children and adults across the COVID-19 clinical spectrum
Farber and colleagues report distinct antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric cohorts, including those who developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), and adult COVID-19 cohorts.
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