When the pandemic started and schools shut down, kids in Saratoga Springs,NY who relied on free school lunches for food, lost those lunches.
He, with his rather small deli in upstate NY started making free sandwiches for the kids.
Now this...
And this was the message.
This 👆is how we work together as a society to pull through this pandemic. This is encouraging and hopeful and shows off the best that humans can be.
Great job Daniel Chessare! - my brother and owner of Saratoga’s Broadway Deli, In Upstate NY. This isn’t meant to be an advertisement, but hey, If you’re in the area, stop by, say hello and get a terrific sandwich in his shop. He’s done so much for the community out of his wallet
Was NOT planning this but many people DM’d asking if they can donate a few bucks
Note, when I asked if he’d accept donations he said no. He’s a bit stubborn. I wrangled him to agree - if you feel compelled to donate a few bucks. Feel free (hope this isn’t against twitter terms)
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First, the amazing efficacy from phase 3 at this point for both @moderna_tx and @pfizer vaccines - both mRNA vaccines - is EXCEEDINGLY ENCOURAGING.
These results show that these vaccines are eliciting the correct antibody bases responses to stop symptomatic infection!
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What I am worried about is the time scale of the trials thus far:
The leading vaccines are presenting the spike protein to the human immune system. This makes sense! Immunize against spike and stop virus entry into the cells.
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@elonmusk Great question! It’s more complex question and depends on why the test is being used - ie: do you want to know if you are currently contagious/risky to others or if you have any remnants of RNA? The difference may sound trivial but it is massive
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@elonmusk If the question is "Am I currently infectious right now when the swab is collected" then on *most* instruments/labs, data suggests a Ct value somewhere around 30 or below is needed. (Different instruments/labs are different - but that's a decent generalization)...
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@elonmusk If the question is "Am I becoming infectious" then even if you have a high Ct value... say 38... then it's important to test again the next day. If you go to 28, then you better stay put, you're likely infectious for the next 5-8 days or so...
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The paper 👆by one of the leading groups in the world on #COVID19 testing @c_drosten.
The paper supports precisely what we have shown in our research for these tests to be used as powerful public health screening tools to slow/stop outbreaks
The paper evaluates multiple antigen tests and finds a wide variety of specificities and analytical sensitivities
Drives home message that not all antigen tests are the same! These tests use antibodies to capture the virus and these will induce potentially major differences
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Today - I’m excited about not just antigen tests but introduction of at-home PCR-like tests like @HomodeusInc that are in works
These will serve so many purposes!
A major one is as gold-standard to confirm rapid antigen tests in the home/school/work w/out need for lab PCR
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These tests will bring the full power of a PCR lab into the home! Or School, or work, or small medical clinic
They won’t scale as high as antigen tests in terms of numbers, but it makes them optimal for them to serve, in part, as confirmatory tests for antigen tests
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False positives for example do happen (not frequently) in antigen tests. Confirming w a 2nd antigen test is one way forward
We want to be sure a +ve in a nursing home is true so a person is cohorted correctly (otherwise a potentially deadly mistake).
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This plan can work with only 10M paper strip antigen tests per day in whole of US
US Govn't can produce / fund these tests. Ship to participating households. 20 paper strip tests per household...
3 are different (but look same) and are for rapidly confirming positives.
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We do NOT need all people to "buy into" the program. These tests are used in private (think... next to toothbrush) and need only half of a community to decide to participate.
So if 50% of people don't want to - they don't need to. Not mandatory... the plan still works!
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