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Mayo Clinic launches neutralizing antibody test to advance COVID-19 therapieshttps://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-neutralizing-antibody-test-to-advance-covid-19-therapies/The new test measures the level of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Neutralizing antibodies are a subset of antibodies able to independently inactivate viruses, and are associated with protective immunity against re-infection for many infectious pathogens.“The neutralizing antibody test is a critical addition to our COVID-19 testing, expanding on the capabilities of the molecular tests used to diagnose active infection and the serology test, which indicates previous infection by identifying antibodies for the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” says William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories. “This new test provides us with incredibly important information about how effective a person’s antibodies are at neutralizing the virus. This will help us identify optimal convalescent plasma donors and ultimately help assess the efficacy of anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.”——————Posted this here because it relates both to testing and to the ability to evaluate potential vaccines.
Ok so help me out here Goooo and forgetful. The plasma study showed no significant improvement on patient outcomes, and the hope behind plasma was that it would contain enough antibodies to fight the virus.So how are these neutralizing antibodies different than those found in convalescent plasma? More concentrated? More specific/effective to fighting the virus in the lab? More full of COVID krypton?
People who were celebrating the reopening and saying we completely overreacted to the virus have gone very silent.I wish they had been right. Unfortunately our president was terribly wrong when he said this would disappear, that we’d be down to 0 cases come April, that we’d be reopen for business come Easter, that the virus would go away like a miracle come warm weather. Nobody in their right minds would believe what goes against absolutely everything about science, but he has the MAGAs brain washed and when things go bad they just go hiding in a bunker, literally.But maybe he’ll get his sports stadiums full of fans by August like promised. At some point he has to get one thing right just by pure luck, right?
Are you talking on this board? Or otherwise? There are plenty of places where reopening is going just fine. And plenty of justifiable arguments that some places more than necessary was done while others not enough or soon enough was done. Not everything has to be completely and utterly political to the farthest stretches. It’s possible to celebrate reopening and not be a “brain washed MAGA”. It’s possible to look back at the economic and financial toll of a 3 month lockdown with a critical eye and not be a brain dead Trump crony. It’s possible to do all those things also realize Houston could have a completely different situation than many other places that have reopened without calling everything a total win or loss for either school of thought across the board. It’s arrogant pandering tribal garbage.
Also I’m 100% convinced anyone who supports someone who Tweets this:https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1270333484528214018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwgr%5E393535353b636f6e74726f6c&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-30673030433285602908.ampproject.net%2F2005272217000%2Fframe.htmlOr this:https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-startsOr does this:https://www.google.com/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/06/trumps-church-photo-op-all-the-absurd-details.htmlOr this:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/amp/trump-s-worst-offense-mocking-disabled-reporter-poll-finds-n627736Is absolutely brainwashed. Call it arrogant pandering tribal garbage, but I’m just calling it as I see it, and I can’t see any other possible explanation. It’s an absolute embarrassment that the people of this country voted this guy anywhere close to the White House.Very sad.
It’s also possible that Houston is the first of more to come. But we won’t act upon the warning signs until it’s already hit us.
Dude, did you read anything I said? I literally said it was possible to support/celebrate reopening and not be some breathless MAGA Trump supporter. I spoke directly to the virus and not having to automatically politicize any viewpoint as either MAGA or “sensible science and reason”...and you IMMEDIATELY went back to Trump and his supporters talking about a bunch of crap I wasn’t even referencing. This is a COVID board, not a politics board, I was merely objecting to the idea that everyone who didn’t share the most extreme COVID caution or differed from the more conservative approaches to reopening was automatically MAGA and a bunker boy associate of President Pandemic. Cause that’s what gets heavily implied at times.
Cost/quantity of Supplies, method/system to trace, training/hiring are a few to start withI will say ability to process tests and partnership on therapy and vaccine seems good. So NIH good job. CDC has been terrible. FDA could have been much better.
It's pretty hard to seperate politics from this when many of these "openings" are due to political pressure being applied at the very top. Everybody knows we are balancing the economy and health, but the concern is that if health continues to decline, the economy is going to be in even worse shape.
I agree, but at the same time, some of what is going on here is obnoxious. I'm certainly not innocent, but I've tried to be better.
My sister telling me that scottsdale Phoenix is seeing a massive rise and it's mostly young people. I believe they were one of the first to reopen
The fact that California is on that list should make people re-evaluate the lockdowns. They locked down early and had some of the most draconian measures and they are just now having their highest infection rate?
Why do they have to sign waivers? It’s all a hoax. I listen to Rush Limbaugh
Yeah, it isn’t just Houston. Other localized areas like Montgomery are on the edge of disaster, and entire states like NC and AZ are rapidly getting there. As for CDC, the Director is a joke, but the mainline workers are dedicated and highly qualified to do the job. IMHO, the career public servants have been handcuffed so they don’t interfere with The Message.