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Dan Larremore
DanLarremore
The document linked below shows (2 weeks ago) what guidance on the use of rapid point-of-care testing could look like. @ICMRDELHI conducted a 2-site eval of antigen test. Note recommendation
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Sourav Roy Barman
Sourav_RB
Between June 18 and July 24 (morning), 4,04,141 lakh rapid tests were carried out in Delhi. Out of the total, only 2818 people (showing symptoms) were re-tested through RT-PCR method,
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PriyankaPulla
PriyankaPulla
"Nivedita Gupta from ICMR also told the court that it never said asymptomatic RAT negative persons should not undergo RT/PCR testing, it only said the symptomatic RAT negative patients be
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Anant Bhan
AnantBhan
This is a letter which has been sent out by the ICMR DG yesterday. Now that multiple folks have confirmed genuineness, let me raise some issues with this letter on
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Medical Macaroni
dawalelo
Why do we repeatedly need to ask for transparent #covid19 data. Health Ministry @mohfw_india has ‘urged,’ all states to retest with RTPCR, all those who are negative on less accurate
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Murad Banaji
muradbanaji
My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing
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PriyankaPulla
PriyankaPulla
Some extra points I learnt while reporting this story. Bharat Biotech has claimed that because it is a whole virus vaccine and attracts a wider range of antibody responses (to
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Anoo Bhuyan
AnooBhu
1. I'm in Bhopal this week reporting on Bharat Biotech & ICMR's COVID vaccine trial.Here's the family of Deepak Marabi. Marabi died on 21 Dec 2020. His family says it's
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Saket Gokhale
SaketGokhale
Exclusive:Mystery of Bharat Biotech's Phase 1&2 Covid-19 vaccine trials:Bharat Biotech registered its Phase 1&2 trials for Covaxin with India's Clinical Trials Registry (CTR) - a division of ICMR - which
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सिद्धार्थ
das_seed
Dr Krishna Ella's (CEO, Bharat Biotech) press brief today. He angrily described how big of blunder "dosing error" in a single-blind AZD1222 (AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID19 vaccine) trial in UK was.Points out
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Chetan Bhattacharji
CBhattacharji
Here’s a thread based on #ParliamentAnswers on where India stands on a threat bigger than #Covid19.A bigger health & economic threat already playing out (& likely to outlast the covid
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Joey
DrJoyeeta
Significance of Ct value in RTPCR tests for Covid 19:The RT PCR results as of now was giving positive and negative reports but ICMR has advised labs to also report
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Ambarish Satwik
AmbarishSatwik
Thread. When sampling for COVID is done, the ICMR Specimen Referral Form has to be filled. And this data has to be uploaded to the government’s RT-PCR app. While filling
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PriyankaPulla
PriyankaPulla
PSA answers questions on the science of vaccines. Please watch:https://www.indiascience.in/ PSA says that if we didn't do trials, we wouldn't be able to answer questions on immunogenicity and efficacy. And
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Logically India
LogicallyIN
A viral video doing the rounds on Whatsapp is full of false claims about COVID-19. We took a look at some of them. The video’s creator, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, calls
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Rambhakt Vedic
Vedic_Revival
THREADcollection of tweets"But what about the environment?" Facebook has a 10 times worse carbon footprint than firecrackersAnd the firecracker carbon footprint is insignificant to total emissionshttps://twitter.com/Vedic_Revival/
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