Prof. Shane Crotty
Vaccines and immune system scientist. Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), a non-profit research institute @ljiresearch. PhD not MD.
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1/ Now for the thornier data.
1/ Novavax UK first: ~90% protection again any symptomatic COVID-19. And that high level of protection was accomplished under conditions of very intense community transmission in...
1/ Are RNA vaccines safe? I have gotten this question a lot lately, and it is a good question.
Phenomenal new papers in @ScienceMagazine understanding causes of severe COVID-19! Defects in early innate immunity are a major factor. Extraordinary collaborative work by an incre...
1/ There are various tweets misinterpreting COVID-19 βpre-existing immunityβ and making dangerous claims about herd immunity. Since many of those claims refer to our scientific pap...
Our new paper rapidly studied T cell + antibody immune responses in average COVID-19 cases. This is good news in multiple ways, including coronavirus vaccines. @ljiresearch https:...