#Asymptomatics

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

The last few weeks it has been clear the U.K. is sliding into a pandemic resurgence, and is very poorly placed to deal with it 1/nhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/11/its-world-leadingly-bad-is-what-it-is-the-week-covid-surged-a

Jon Deeks

deeksj

How well will these 15-minute rapid tests Boris mentioned work? (quick answer – we don’t know)The Innova test was mentioned this week in Telegraph.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/19/government-secures-20-million-covid-quick-tes

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I feel like Sisyphus right after he loses his grip on the boulder. People are finally coming around the realization that high-volume screening of asymptomatic people is a powerful tool

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

The new strain of #COVID is more transmissible. Will it be deadlier?Many ppl think not: "If a virus kills more quickly, it has fewer opportunities to spread. It's the transmission-virulence

Sujatha Hampton

SujathaHampton

I’m not able to watch SB right now but I’m getting flooded w messages from scared people cuz what @fcpsnews is suggesting doesn’t make sense & is untenable as cases

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing

bene_dicere

Bene09443296

Do asymptomatics/presymptomatics transmit #COVID19 disease? Let’s analyse the preprint systematic review including 19 studies focusing on TRULY asymptomatic/presymptomatic. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.20135194v2 1/n

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

Debadutta Parija

parija_d

@bmcbbsr (1) Long thread warning..Me and wife are Medical Doctors. My 68 years old mother, who is diabetic and hypertensive (on medication) was diagnosed with Covid. Harrowing experience so far.

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

Varun C. MD, DM

drcheruvarun

Ok, took me a few days to properly process the stunning results of the Delhi serosurvey. Unfortunately we only have a press conference with a few slides telling us that

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Supposedly broad-thinking people are decidedly zero dimensional on face masks. Here are some questions everyone needs to ask about face masks. 1 ASYMPTOMATICSAre asymptomatics major contributors of transmission? If not,

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

The McTague article in the Atlantic on UK state failure read to me more like an introduction to an article on UK state failure ['maybe the UK state has failed,

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Do kids transmit #COVID19 less often than adults?New paper published from contact tracing in S Korea.(I'm 1-2d late to the party but other threads are mis-representing the paper/data or missing

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 294Lots to talk about, so today I’ll do an update on things @UCSFHospitals (now adding vaccine rollout), SF and CA. Then quick takes on a

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 268Today was Pfizer Vaccine Day @US_FDA, and the expert panel just recommended EUA approval https://tinyurl.com/y5u84jmx Next: FDA deliberates, but expect an EUA in next 1-2

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