#Testing

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

How should we interpret #COVID19 case counts given the enormous variation in testing? A quick cautionary thread.As everyone knows the # of "confirmed cases" for COVID19 are a small fraction

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission among Marine Recruits during Quarantine | NEJMhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717#.X6yTHiwpVmM.twitter This study uses molecular phylogenetic analysis to confirm that the infections happened within th

Soumya

skarlamangla

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in LA: The FDA is warning that the COVID tests used at our testing sites have a high false negative rate.

Anupam Pande MD, MPH

tallyardstick

Another testing deficiency that is seriously hampering the US pandemic response and no one is talking about: THE WEEKEND PROBLEM. A thread... 1/ I recently tried to get my son

Yvette Cooper

YvetteCooperMP

Given the very serious concerns about the South African variant - both how infectious it is, and on the vaccine effectiveness - why isn’t Govt already taking much stronger border

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/ Based on our work on Ebola & Zika, when Covid hit in January, we called for mass screening with rapid tests as a way to stop Covid in US

Rapid Tests

RapidTests

1/ Some may be wondering: What ever happened to rapid tests? There was a lot of excitement a few months ago and even the FDA seemed to open up. So

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1) It's not uncommon to recover from COVID, test negative, and then test positive again down the line. Happened to ~1 out of 5 recovered patients in large China study

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Another dubious claim in the Economic Survey 2020-21 backed up by a graph (Figure 10, Chapter 1). This claim is about testing. (With so many charts and graphs surely this

Michael Fralick

FralickMike

Today I entered a rabbit hole and learned a ton about d-dimer. It was humbling to realize how little I knew about this pesky blood test. Here are some things

Tim Royers

MW_Royers

I want to talk about the importance of local journalism and how it connects to today's announcement that Millard will be providing on site rapid covid testing in our schools

Joshua M Franklin

thejoshpit

Testing reports from voting system laboratories are one of the best ways for the public to understand the technical aspects of our #election infrastructure. #voting #cybersecurity These reports go all

B. Thomas Hall

ThomasHall17

My wife, in LTC with dementia, passed away from complications caused by covid-19 last Monday. Her nursing home escaped covid in the spring through the staff's hard work and good

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

#COVID19ireland hospitalisation increased by 16% in 24 hours with 92 more than yesterday. 75 were new admissions, highest figure in pandemic, highest in April was 57. 23 discharges suggests 40

Justin Hart

justin_hart

Good gracious! The ridiculous folks on Team Apocalypse are moving the goalposts again! We've noted before that we're performing 10x more #COVID19 tests IN A SINGLE DAY than public labs

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

Some misleading tweets being circulated abt coronavirus testing in University of Cambridge. Truth is extremely good news.In wk 9 of asymptomatic testing, not a single student was a true positive.

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