COVID-19 (Wuhan Novel Coronavirus) Pandemic Master Thread

[CountValentine]

Treat them the way they treat us, fair enough

I am surprised you want to ban entry, that's all.

[yesitsme]

I am surprised you want to ban entry, that's all.

I'm equally surprised that I'm banned entry, it's usually a 2 way street

@ChaimMoskowitz where are you being RH?

[neveryou]

Airports are also under the border control, why is it so easy for Israelis to come to the USA and so difficult for us to go to Israel?

I agree, we should make hard for Israelis to come here till after tishrei or crown heights is going to be probably the most packed its ever been

[Lurker]

Previously, people were able to take an antibodies test to find out if they had Covid. Is there a way to determine if a vaccinated person had Covid, post facto?

[Dan]

Previously, people were able to take an antibodies test to find out if they had Covid. Is there a way to determine if a vaccinated person had Covid, post facto?

Perhaps a non-spike antibody test? @biobook

[PlatinumGuy]

Perhaps a non-spike antibody test? @biobook

N protein tests would only pick up infection-generated antibodies but I don’t think they’re commercially available.

[biobook]

N protein tests would only pick up infection-generated antibodies but I don’t think they’re commercially available.

Vaguely remember recently seeing a description of this.  Let me try to activate the little grey cells.

[biobook]

It was when we were discussing the Labcorp/Roche test.  They do offer both the S and N antibody tests to providers.  Covid infection should produce both S and N, and vaccination should produce only S.  IIUC
https://www.labcorp.com/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/providers/antibody-test

[Dan]

Perhaps a non-spike antibody test? @biobook

Confirmed:

https://www.labcorp.com/tests/164068/sars-cov-2-antibodies-nucleocapsid

Note: This assay will not detect antibodies induced by currently available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

I took test (Labcorp test 164068 by Roche) originally last June.

I took 164090 this year. That's the spike antibody test that measures vaccine antibodies.

[YitzyS]

Vaguely remember recently seeing a description of this.  Let me try to activate the little grey cells.

In your case, the big grey cells.

[biobook]

In your case, the big grey cells.

Non, non, non.  I could never outdo mon ami, M. Poirot!

[PlatinumGuy]

https://twitter.com/asahutchinson/status/1424832448081403905

[CountValentine]

https://twitter.com/asahutchinson/status/1424832448081403905

Give him some credit for seeing the light. Now we need others to follow to get this under control.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/arkansas-gov-asa-hutchinson-seeks-reverse-mask-ban/story?id=79289906#:~:text=Arkansas%20governor%20reverses%20course%20on%20masks%20in%20schools,for%20students%20under%2012%20who%20can%27t%20get%20vaccinated.

[PlatinumGuy]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1424877398433181697

‘Freedom’ to occupy my hospital bed and prevent me from having surgery

[PlatinumGuy]

Give him some credit for seeing the light. Now we need others to follow to get this under control.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/arkansas-gov-asa-hutchinson-seeks-reverse-mask-ban/story?id=79289906#:~:text=Arkansas%20governor%20reverses%20course%20on%20masks%20in%20schools,for%20students%20under%2012%20who%20can%27t%20get%20vaccinated.

With 8 ICU beds left in the entire State…

[Lurker]

With 8 ICU beds left in the entire State…

Some people need to be halfway off the cliff to start praying... better late than never.

[Jeremiah]

Give him some credit for seeing the light. Now we need others to follow to get this under control.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/arkansas-gov-asa-hutchinson-seeks-reverse-mask-ban/story?id=79289906#:~:text=Arkansas%20governor%20reverses%20course%20on%20masks%20in%20schools,for%20students%20under%2012%20who%20can%27t%20get%20vaccinated.

To put vaccines and masks in the same basket is a disgrace to the vaccines. Go through the governor’s tweets. He pushes the vaccine all day. No mention of masks anywhere.

[Lurker]

To put vaccines and masks in the same basket is a disgrace to the vaccines. Go through the governor’s tweets. He pushes the vaccine all day. No mention of masks anywhere.

Did you even read the article?

[Jeremiah]

Did you even read the article?

Did you watch the interview?

[Jeremiah]

Did you even read the article?

I did. But if you watch the interview you see he pushes vaccine the entire time. Not much about vaccine. He says let’s focus on vaccinations and not on the mask debate