#Testing

Louis Wu

LouisWu1992

For anyone interested in the age breakdown for covid in Ireland, I've updated my set of charts with the data since last Sunday. There are links in the last tweet

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

IMPORTANT: My former colleagues in the health insurance industry claim they’re waiving all costs of testing & treatment for #COVID19. This is a lie. In reality, this promise doesn’t apply

Damon Monteleone

RMHS_Principal

(A thread) How many @mcps high schools offer African American History & Latin American History? I taught both of these at BCC High School in the 90's. How much of

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

A new article in ⁦@nytimes⁩ states rapid tests falter in asymptomaticsWarning of their use for asymptomatic screeningSays: among random asymptomatic #COVID19 screens, Rapid Tests caught only 32% of PCR +ve

Marion Koopmans

MarionKoopmans

So finally: why did we do the PCR design this way? Because it was January 6th, we were hearing of a new SARS like virus, and there were no samples,

Joshua Weitz

joshuasweitz

A message to the @GeorgiaTech community. Yesterday we had a jump in surveillance positives with a one-time increase to ~2.5% (significantly above recent trends near 1%). Thoughts below

Tracy O'Connell Novick

TracyNovick

I'm sorry: I was under the impression that Oster didn't think she should be cited as an authority on COVID and schools (which is correct)? Why is she then quoted

Lew Jobs ᓗ ᔭᑉᔅ

llewellynjobs

I want to share 2 stories. Both of these women have recently been potentially diagnosed with cancer.For now, I'll call them "woman on the left" and "woman on the right".I

Daniel Bobinski (Parler: NewBookofDaniel)

NewBookofDaniel

IMPORTANT THREAD1 / 11Someone sent me the following because of my column & podcasts on Contact Tracing: “My brother was recently contacted by a ‘tracer’ because his girlfriend's brother-in-law, who

Seema Jayachandran

seema_econ

When classes resume in January, colleges should start offering financial rewards to students to stay Covid-negative. My column in the NYT.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/business/rewards-college-students-coronavirus.html Many colleges al

Greg Owen

Greg0wen

1/ 2019 HIV rates from @PHE_ukNew HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men at their lowest in 20 yearsThe number of gay and bisexual men (GBM) with newly diagnosed HIV

Beth Malicki

BethMalicki

Why did Iowa's Governor roll back all COVID-19 restrictions on businesses, gatherings, including ending the mask mandate (this starts Sunday)? Iowa Numbers:5th in deaths by population49th in vaccinating populationHospitalization rate

Jeff Hwang

RivalSchoolX

Ok, so now we know what the governor was waiting for — for whatever happened in the past week (the reduced testing, etc) to get the *reported* Rt number down

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

DHSC has published the results of its trial of lateral flow tests – the one it is going with for mass testing is the Innova antigen assay. A thread (and

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

Yes, COVID19 pandemic was indeed a 2020 public health emergency caused by SARS-CoV-2.But as guardians of testing and mortality attribution @RCPath has let the country down badly.Take a look at

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

Public service announcement thread explaining some public health concepts the British Public don’t understand1) Testing: The purpose of testing is to find out who has the virus. This information can

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