#Diagnostics

Andrew Lover

AndrewALover

New UK strain of #COVID19 (B1.1.7) Suggested that it's 70% more transmissible. What if this is a "side effect" of massive levels of testing? Surely mass testing/diagnostics can't drive

Tim Sweeney

TimSweeney83

Our team @Inflammatix_Inc (plus some great collaborators) put out three manuscripts this week, and I think a thread is in order, as they form a powerful trio demonstrating the power

Charlie Mace

Charles_Mace

I'm speaking at the Tufts COVID-19 Research Symposium next week on the challenges associated with developing *commercial products* (not just publishing papers) in an academic lab... on an accelerated timeline...

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

UK Rolling out #COVID19 Rapid Tests! **NOTE: A quote says rapid tests missed 60% of positives in LiverpoolNOT accurateVAST majority of MISSES were LOW PCR RNA & thus NO LONGER

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Here is an example of the benefits of public Ct data and tax funded data should but public for the tax payer see.Particularly if said data is going to be

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

Fortunately, this tool also has an option for displaying deaths by date of occurrence. It looks like this: Doesn't @RCPath have anything to say on this? Even if it is

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Because SARS-CoV-2 testing often happens after symptoms appear, it's been difficult to estimate detection probability early in infection. So great to collaborate with team at @TheCrick & @ucl to tackle

Marion Koopmans

MarionKoopmans

Wow factor paper of the week: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.388819v1.full#ref-12Loss of taste and smell is a key symptom of COVID-19. This group studied infection of olfactory bulb sensory neural cells from nasal mucosa

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ Our pre-print on immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 is out today. To our knowledge, this is the largest such study for any acute infection. The upshot is that there is

Dr Josie Golding

BeakerH

I will be listening in to this - #COVID19 and #Ebola discussion in DRC.https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1275856082536214530 @MoetiTshidi is discussing the response effort by all partners and how collaboration is essential. And a

Kari Tikkinen

KariTikkinen

What do men expect from diagnostics and treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (#LUTS)? We performed a systematic review of patients’ values, preferences, and expectations and included 9235 patients from

Tay

TaylorQuant

Sorry Darren, too big a question to reply in a single Tweet so you're getting a quick thread I'm at a loss with anything to contribute here now as pretty

Dr. Neil Cohn

visual_linguist

Thanks to @z9sx7wox I've now taken a deep dive into Garfield parody accounts like @yeetgarf which ends each strip with a panel of Garfield being tossed out of a window

Catherine Moore🦠🧬🇪🇺

SmallRedOne

For all of you PCR nerds out there, the lab has just sent me over some screenshots of a great example of an N gene variant. That is a virus

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Until we are all safe, no one is safe. Covid is a global problem ⁦@RobinMcKie⁩https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/31/jeremy-farrar-until-we-are-all-safe-no-one-is-safe-covid-is-a-global-problem It is reasonable & understandab

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