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Research Director @DukeCHDI, Assistant Prof, former journal editor, beekeeper, food snob, Durhamite; Opinions mine - here to like all your good news (she/her)
Jul 24, 2021 25 tweets 9 min read
New preprint 🧵🧵🧵: bit.ly/3zH0IYr
Led by @ SaahithiRao @MattKellyMD and @Duke_Childrens @DukeCHDI colleagues Wen Zhao, Jason Lang, Laine Thomas, and Ben Goldstein
#asthma #pediatrics #SARSCoV2 Remember how in #DukeBRAVEKids we found that kids with asthma seemed to be at lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection?
bit.ly/3x4F7ah
We decided to try to run that down using a population-level, retrospective EHR-based analysis from @DukeHealth
Apr 20, 2021 31 tweets 14 min read
New #DukeBRAVEKids preprint:
"Asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits durable neutralizing antibody responses in children and adolescents"
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medrxiv.org/content/10.110… First off - this was again a big team effort that involved multiple investigators, from the clinical research team to the immunologists! @Duke_Childrens @TheDHVI @MattKellyMD @DebLugoPedsID @AlexRotta @DukeMedSchool @eleanor_semmes @SalliePermar @dukemedicine
Aug 22, 2020 30 tweets 8 min read
SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study | medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.110… A prospective cohort study evaluating #SARSCoV2 exposure in a community sample of 382 kids, including epidemiological and clinical characteristics, detailed symptom descriptions, and viral load analysis of nasopharyngeal swabs