Since it's pretty much commonly accepted that there have been plenty more infections than officially recognized, would it make sense to perform an antibody test prior to receiving the Covid-19 vaccine? Or is this already done? | AskScience Blog

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Since it's pretty much commonly accepted that there have been plenty more infections than officially recognized, would it make sense to perform an antibody test prior to receiving the Covid-19 vaccine? Or is this already done?

Since it's pretty much commonly accepted that there have been plenty more infections than officially recognized, would it make sense to perform an antibody test prior to receiving the Covid-19 vaccine? Or is this already done?


Since it's pretty much commonly accepted that there have been plenty more infections than officially recognized, would it make sense to perform an antibody test prior to receiving the Covid-19 vaccine? Or is this already done?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 12:49 PM PST

Why don't refineries reclaim their flare's energy to heat water or the distillation stack?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 02:39 AM PST

Does brain size relate to intelligence?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 04:18 AM PST

How do you test a baby’s eyesight?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 05:34 AM PST

I keep seeing uplifting videos of babies seeing their moms for the first time with the help of baby glasses, but without being able to do a regular optical exam whereby you ask the baby "which is clearer, this or this?", how do they know which prescription lenses to use?

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I just learned about the Nutrient Artery. What happens to all of the arteries and veins inside a bone during a bone break?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 05:15 AM PST

Do the veins arteries tear too? How would they repair themselves?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient_artery

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Is there a difference between the antibodies that are created inside the body via a vaccine, and the antibodies created inside the body via a viral infection?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 12:19 PM PST

If I got a vaccine, and someone tested my blood for antibodies, would they be able to tell the antibodies in my blood were the result of a vaccine and not a viral infection? Or vice versa?

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Is there a correlation between genetic variation and the long-term dietary patterns of ethnic groups or regional populations?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 06:51 AM PST

It makes sense that certain ethnic groups or populations of people may be prone to food intolerances or micronutrient deficiencies because of the foods that were generally available to them for thousands of years, but I'm curious in what other ways people may have evolved based on dietary changes or the availability of specific foods over time.

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What does it mean that a vaccine is 95% effective? What happens to the other 5% of people?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 06:40 AM PST

Therapeutic vs prophylactic vaccine?

Posted: 21 Nov 2020 05:23 AM PST

Why is it difficult to turn a prophylactic vaccine into a therapeutic vaccine? Is it easier to take an effective therapeutic vaccine and use it for prevention??? (For example therapeutic cancer vaccine)

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If you were outside the space station, in your space suit, could you kick off and start hurdling towards Earth?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 11:02 PM PST

So I am looking at this really cool clip. https://twitter.com/astro_fonseca/status/1329891492006162433?s=21 Dude appears to be outside working on the space station. I'm watching this wondering if dude could just work his way to the bottom, kick off really hard and just go back to Earth. He would have to take extra air tanks and a parachute, but could they do it? Or would they just move away from the station, not really go anywhere and eventually just die?

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When you move a file around within the same hard drive, does the data physically move too? Or does it just simply change the address?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 06:55 PM PST

Now I understand that a single physical drive can have multiple partitions and can be read as multiple distinct drives. In those cases, I believe that yes, the data is physically moving as well when you transfer files over these partitions.

But what about if its within the same partition? Say for example, moving it to a different folder to organize your stuff?

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Why does hard liquor not have a more profound impact on developing oral and esophageal cancer compared to beer or wine?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 12:35 PM PST

It's well established that alcohol is a carcinogen and is positively associated with oral cancer. However, why is the risk/effect not compounded with hard liquor (at or above 40% alcohol by volume)? Wouldn't the concentration of ethanol in high proof bottles damage the epithelium more so than something like beer or wine?

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How does an epiphany or sudden moment of insight looks like from the brain inner works point of view?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 10:59 AM PST

On a cellular level, how does the body heat up?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 09:16 AM PST

What does our body do to fight off viruses or germs? I just want a general idea honestly I'm just baffled by the idea of how heat is generated. Do the cells just shake vigorously and the friction produces heat?

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In humans why does mitral valve has 2 leaflets and tricuspid has 3? Is it functional or just random?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 09:05 AM PST

Have cancer treatments actually gotten better or more more effective in the last 30 or so years? It just seems like there are still a lot of people dying from cancer and a lot of people who have been stuck doing chemotherapy.

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 01:46 PM PST

While I fully recognize that HIV/AIDS and cancer are two completely different animals, considering the fact that there are many types of cancers that can't all be approached in the same manner, just from a lay person's perspective it seems like cancer treatments that the masses get have been frozen in time while HIV/AIDS patients have gone from it being a death sentence to being able to live a fully realized life without too many restrictions since the 80s.

Seemingly every week we hear about a revolutionary new cancer treatment and have been for the last 20 or so years yet people are still having to go through chemotherapy like they have been forced to do since the eighties and most likely before that as well.

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Is it possible to have a studder in one language but not in another?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 06:51 AM PST

Radiometric dating in the Bruniquel Cave - how do we know it's the age of construction?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 08:43 AM PST

Neanderthal structures (ring of broken stalagmites) in the Bruniquel Cave have been dated to be 176,000 years old. It's given as the date of construction. Uranium-thorium dating has been used on stalagmites. How do we know that this is the date construction and not the age of the rock?

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What is the mechanism for antimicrobial behavior of silver or copper?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 06:22 AM PST

How does putting these materials in the fabric of my shirt so anything to kill microbes?

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Is there a limit of how many diseases a body can have antibodies to? Where is that information stored in the immune system and does it ever "runs out" of space to add more defenses? Is there a the record of the person who has the most defenses to different viral/bacterial diseases?

Posted: 20 Nov 2020 09:19 AM PST

Considering that new bacterial/viral diseases are always forming, even if they are not always lethal and/or we form our antibodies with vaccines, could there be a moment that they become too much information for our immune system to track?

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