#Testing

Me, at Newsroom, now ungated, on the need to keep improving border systems to keep the bug out. Otago's epidemiologists have had more than a few good ideas that bear
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We had two preprints out last week. They might seem unrelated, but have lots to do with each other. In this thread I will outline the results and what they
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On Tuesday, when Premier Doug Ford announced that Ontario was rolling out new rapid tests for COVID, he called them "game changers" FIVE separate times. Five!!Is that what the province's
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You may recall me worrying in recent months about this summer's festival season. Well, it's happening: at some events more than half the "MDMA" samples presented for testing have been
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Some observations about COVID and QLD, having been here for three weeks, visiting from NSW. (It feels like visiting from another planet.) The QLD Government has done a very good
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817 #COVID19 patients in hospital this morning. Effectively double the 409 this day last week. 73 patients in ICU as of last night.As you can see, Ireland is rapidly
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Modelling evidence (and experience from previous lockdown) suggests that restrictions will not bring R below 1 with the new strain unless we significantly reduce transmission from primary, secondary schools and
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1/ Because of the holiday weekend, you will likely notice two weird changes in reported COVID-19 data over the next week. @COVID19Tracking explains why both expected changes don’t necessarily mean
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Schools are being kept open not because of the need for educating students, their primary function, but because #bced performs a social safety net function in the provision of food,
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Nice interview, @sabrinawong88! There are many questions on ideal settings for COVID-19 rapid testing (aka point-of-care tests, aka rapid antigen tests, or RAT, which I’ll use to save characters here).
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A thinking through the VOC situation in #Alberta in light of what @CMOH_Alberta said yesterday. This will be a bit lengthy. The summary: there better be some compelling info not
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I think this gets the Chinese approach wrong... (1/6) β€œXi has gambled on rural migrants being tested before returning home, and on local officials being able to deal with isolated
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What’s going on with COVID testing in the UK? Here are the figures for the last two weeks https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases  1/24 They fell off a cliff because @PHE_UK introduced more stringent
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Few points on this thread in relation to the Liverpool mass testing pilot and what that has meant for the city itself This is a very different to the issue
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The Most Important Policy Decision In Our LifetimesIn a week dominated by horrible news, there are signs that the Senate may make the right choice when it passes a new
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