Read on Twitter
“studies on these antigen tests have been... amongst symptomatic. So you need to appropriately study it [in asymptomatics]. Once you do that - then I think you can talk about scaling them up”
A good sign from a Biden task force member, on rapid tests!
1/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/it-s-politicizing-toilet-paper-member-biden-s-covid-19-panel-surveys-task-ahead
A good sign from a Biden task force member, on rapid tests!
1/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/it-s-politicizing-toilet-paper-member-biden-s-covid-19-panel-surveys-task-ahead
The good thing is that we KNOW how they will perform in asymptomatics to find likely contagious people... the SAME as they do in symptomatic people!
The test doesn’t care about symptoms. It cares about virus.
A contagiousness test for public health is NOT a medical test
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The test doesn’t care about symptoms. It cares about virus.
A contagiousness test for public health is NOT a medical test
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The bad thing is they take time - while people are dying
Everything is slow. We keep asking for “academic precision”
But we are in a war. We don’t have time to wait for 15 studies to tell us what we already know. We need to act. We know enough. We knew it in April
Everything is slow. We keep asking for “academic precision”
But we are in a war. We don’t have time to wait for 15 studies to tell us what we already know. We need to act. We know enough. We knew it in April
