#Testing

Statistics Guy 🤓

Stat_O_Guy

Based on the Government Dashboard - Here is London and their massive uncontrolled spike that requires Lockdown 3 & Tier 4.Confused, well you should be!Londons Deaths are almost 85% lower

John Bye

_johnbye

The government recently admitted its labs are struggling to meet demand, forcing them to ration access to testing to reduce delays and voided tests.Headline capacity figures look like they have

Gregory Herczeg

GregHerczeg

Frequent #COVID-19 question in US: why are cases increasing but deaths steady? Many explanations, for example @CT_Bergstrom. Simple model: take cases, smooth with Gaussian, lag deaths by some time after a

Atul Gawande

Atul_Gawande

This is beyond alarming. Yes, the mortality curve is flat and the young are the biggest source of cases unlike before. But hospital beds in these states are filling. And

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

Testing asymptomatic people for COVID is a classic case of overdiagnosis—on a massive scale.So why are we doing it? (Read the excerpts...all the way to the end.)https://ebm.bmj.com/content/23/1/1 The pushback to

Joshua Tepper

DrJoshuaTepper

Like everyone else I have been reading about COVID daily for what feels like years already.One of the best pieces I read that I don't think got enough attention was

facts&effects

EffectsFacts

(1/9) Week 27 update. Retroactive revisions of deaths in week 26 but the trend remains intact. After 6 weeks since reported cases surged there is still a consistent decline in

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I’m feeling really cross this evening. We wouldn’t need to be mucking about with thresholds & AI systems & getting into unseemly squabbles about the reliability of PCR mass testing

Anne Huang| 黃安安

drannehuang

1/ False promise of mass testing:False reassurance due mass testing can lead to unintended community transmissions, *particularly* if exposed contacts (or cases) do not adhere to strict quarantine (or isolation)

Hanna Faghfoury

HannanehF

5 hot tips for my non-geneticist friends sending genetic testing. To access the full nerdery, gifs, and clumsy analogies, read thread below. Don't send a panel after an exome.

University at Albany

ualbany

THREAD: Over the last four days we have seen a significant spike in the number of positive and presumed positive COVID-19 cases among on-campus students. As a result, we must

Ridhwaan Suliman

rid1tweets

Test positivity rate: explainer and analysisTest positivity in SA has decreased this past week coming down from record highs. This is good news (we'll hold onto any good news), but

Alex Macheras

AlexInAir

UK could have introduced air travel measures to safely manage the inbound & outbound flow of passengers with #COVID19 testing, & health screening protocolsUK decided not to.Now, we’re in a

Peter Cayton, the Stats Guy

PJACaytonPhD

Okay, let's talk about this one.First, this is total cases in log scale, which works for exponential models. But it makes it difficult to see changes once you are at

Stu Burguiere

StuDoesAmerica

Headline: CDC estimates there have been 10x cases of COVID than official numbers.Twitter: THIS IS WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT!(Actually, we'd like that number to be higher. It means lower mortality

Silas Savant

SiIasSavant

Well looky here.... who's been behind the fraudulent C-19 numbers, from anti-bodies to everything else?Give me a D.Give me an O.Give me an M.Give me an I.Give me an N.Give

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