#Sensitivity

Bansi Sharma

bansisharma

1. On Covid Testing: What We Have, And What We NeedThis is a thread on a few basic scientific concepts, but they can be very, very confusing. Bookmark this thread

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

The government rolling out mass testing in Liverpool using a novel test for which the published sensitivity and specificity data is just 'pass' and 0 details of the plan or

Dusty Chipura

dustychipura

#ADHD 101; things you may or may not have known were ADHD things (and yes I know some of these things can be connected to other diagnoses!)The well known:- chronic

Jon Deeks

deeksj

So the next new Covid-19 testing technology to look at is the OPTIGENE LAMP test - as covered here in the Guardian.1/13Experts question claimed accuracy of Covid-19 saliva testshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/04/experts-question-

Ian Berry

LaughingGenome

We made an exome diagnosis in a rare disease patient this month using a total of 2 PE sequencing reads, several hundred bps beyond the nearest coding region. Interesting anecdote

Dr. Simon ツ

goddeketal

1/ Happy to announce that we have submitted our #paper ‘Bayes Lines Tool (BLT) - A SQL-script for analyzing diagnostic test results with an application to SARS-CoV-2-testing’.In this thread, I

Sonny (genderless ageless space-being)

scrappapertiger

I’ve had some very uncertain uncomfortable feelings around the idea of HSP for a while. That’s not to say that it might not be a really validating and valuable ID

sarah⁷ marshall hwang

sarah_e_wong

ADHD is trending! let’s talk about the article that finally helped me understand how my ADHD brain works (i was diagnosed ~10 years ago). this article asks “what do people

Anotida Matema

ano_matema

KeratoconusPronounced (ker-uh-toe-KOH-nus) occurs when your cornea i.e the clear, dome-shaped front surface of your eye — thins and gradually bulges outward into a cone shape. A cone-shaped cornea causes blurred

Jon Deeks

deeksj

Only evidence for accuracy of UK-Rapid Test Consortium Covid-19 AbC test is flawedOver a week ago with @sarahboseley I asked for transparent reporting of RTC study that says test has

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“With the United States the issue of Haitian independence was affected above all by slavery. Anxious to include the United States in the Pan-American Congress of 1826, where the issue

Nic

niccibelli

While we're talking about the MLB and its #COVID19 cases, I want to take a min to talk about this important paper from @michaelmina_lab at Harvard. I think it's THE

Kate Marvel

DrKateMarvel

NEW SCIENCE ALERT! We have a huge new assessment of equilibrium climate sensitivity out today: https://bit.ly/2BiDFKI The main question: how hot is it going to get? Scientists don’t know! (YOU

Sanjit

sanjit_oberai

Hi, So am glad to be enrolled in a really cool course on #climatechange with @terradotdo where we are learning basics of climate science, modelling, etc. As part of our

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Rapid Antigen tests for #COVID19 in UK are working! Purpose is to rapidly identify infectious people - that is exactly what they are doing!And doing it very well!With an R=1.4,

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

Below is a very bad article on Covid testing. It has poor thinking by *MDs* about testing. And yes I, someone who is not a medical doctor, am claiming that

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