#Testing

Joseph A. Curtatone

JoeCurtatone

Every community in the state can tick into the red. I fully expect Somerville will. Our latest: testing more than doubled, incidence rate up, positivity rate down. Local leaders should

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

One thing I’ve noticed in this thread is the effort to explain why Florida now has roughly the same amounted of lab confirmed cases as New York and yet vastly

Alisdair McNeill

am_sheffgenet

It is approaching the end of 2020. I thought it would be appropriate to end the year by reviewing some of my favourite papers from @ejhg_journal in 2020. For January

Dr. Michael Bowman

drmbowman

Every day that goes by I am more worried re #COVID19. Just today: news that all physicians must wear eye protection in addition to masks constantly for every patient. Why?

Oliver Bateman Does the Work

MoustacheClubUS

my dissertation was on education clauses in state constitutions + the history of school finance litigation, but i became disenchanted w/ that topic bc:a) nearly everyone involved w/ that "work"

Jackie Bray

jbray1027

Hello, hi- NYC has fewer than 65k vax first doses left to administer across all providers.If your hot take is still that vax distro is not fast enough or well

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ Q: I heard the NBA invented a new Covid saliva test? A: It's called SalivaDirect, and it was developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health with

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD on why testing is so vital for avoiding lockdowns... (and why it is so disastrous for testing to break *just* now). And whose fault it is.The basic principle behind

Matt Houston

MattCHouston

Interesting notes from the Oschner Prevalence test for the capital region @WAFB By the end of July, Oschner estimates ~10% of residents in Baton Rouge had had the virus at

Fast Women

fast_women

I appreciated this from this morning's @theAMshakeout newsletter. Most of the races taking place are within the rules, but I think this is about our larger failure at the government

Jillian Jorgensen

Jill_Jorgensen

Something to consider when comparing the school test positivity rate (which has been low) with the broader NYC test rate:The school rate only includes tests done in school. If you’re

Rapid Tests

RapidTests

A new study shows rapid tests detect >85% of probable infectious cases (cases with high viral counts). The ability to detect these cases was just as good in symptomatic and

Zoë McLaren, PhD

ZoeMcLaren

Is it naive to hope that the pandemic will get better now that we have a new President? The truth is that there is a lot of low hanging fruit

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

With cases spiking across the U.S. and national leadership nowhere to be found, states are taking the leadWatching @GovWhitmer announcement. Feels like kind of science-based, nuanced policy intervention we need

Andrew W. McKibbin

AWMcKibbin

A late Thursday @KVUE COVID update:Texas hit a new single-day high for deaths reported with 322, aided by a new methodology the state is using.Those deaths date back as far

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

If there’s a lesson from the pandemic, it is that the US failed not because of central planning and coordination, but lack thereof.https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1346276342027849728 Wasn't going to do this thread, but

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