Vaccine Antibody Testing12 Nov 2020 18:52
I’m certainly not happy with how this week has gone, it reminds me of the week of the placing when we suddenly tanked to 33p and we were left wondering why we took part in the placing at 40p.
Frankly in my view, the whole response to the vaccine news and what happened today, and indeed what was going on behind the scenes all this time could have been handled much better.
However there is one plus point I can see from the Abi response today. There is one specific part of antibody testing which the RTC is pretty decent at. Here are two snippets from the article.
Our AbC-19TM IgG lateral flow assay is targeted at IgG antibodies to the full spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19) to indicate a measure of immune response (aligned with neutralizing antibodies) and differs from other antibody tests, some of which our assay has been compared against (incorrectly in our view). Assays measuring IgM and IgG to the nucleocapsid (as used in this study) may be useful to show previous infection but have no place in understanding the levels of immunity producing antibodies (this requires measurement of IgG to Spike) as generated naturally or via vaccination.
Assays for the detection of antibodies to nucleocapsid will not be useful to indicate who has generated immunity or who has produced IgG antibodies to the spike protein following vaccination. This is a very important difference and the assays have very different use cases.
Now if any of you guys have direct links to ODX or to Walbrook, remember this, write it with black marker preferably non removable on your wallpaper....in the next 2 weeks you should get an update from the Oxford vaccine. That is the one the government wants because the Pfizer one is a logistical nightmare. If Abingdon are telling the truth in their media response today then the RTC NEED TO ABSOLUTELY RAMP UP THE PR CAMPAIGN AHEAD OF AND DURING THE OXFORD ANNOUNCEMENT. If you think I’m talking nonsense then watch another 30-40% get wiped off our share value when that announcement comes. It’s a UK vaccine, the pride of this nation, the vaccine to smash covid goodbye, there will be huge media attention, non covid stocks will surge and pharmas will tank.
I know a small subsection is dedicated to the Oxford spike protein in the Abi white paper but this now needs to be amplified. And for the sake of those people who are trying to understand wtf is going on. If Abi and the RTC are not willing to ramp up PR then I’ll be as clear as I can, we are going to get rammed hard with a spiked truncheon that day.
The world and markets need to fecking know we have a test which compliments the vaccine to test for an immune response.