#Specificity

UtdArena

utdarena

THREAD:Jadon Sancho — a Unique Footballer. This thread will discuss the uniqueness regarding Sancho's style of play. It is not a discussion on his quality per se as that is

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

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

A somewhat technical thread about measuring vaccine efficacy.We're used to the notion that certain properties of tests for disease depend on prevalence: positive and negative predictive value do, for example,

Marie Beecham

mariejbeech

(1) The term “BIPOC”The good and the bad, the dos and the don’ts— (2) The GoodBIPOC, pronounced “buy-pock,” is an umbrella term. It stands for Black people, Indigenous peoples, and

Tony Yu-Chen Tsai

tonytsai00

Excited to share my postdoc work, just out in Science! Thanks to the labs of @SeanMegason and @HeisenbergCPLab for their support, and @BioPhysMatt , @PengXia7, Tugba, Holger for help solving

Dee Pennyway (they/them)

DeePennyway

Just a quiet challenge for 2021 that may be broadly applicable:We should try to be specific in our critiques to the issue we're critiquing, in order to avoid collateral damage.

Wed Theeler

faen_tolv

It's now just under three weeks until the trial of George Floyd's killer begins. Now would be a great time for folks to mentally prepare for the very real, even

Andy Hessick

AndyHessick

One illustration of the way in which our legal system favors law and order over liberty is in the difference between qualified immunity and the rule of lenity. Both doctrines

Dr David Robert Grimes

drg1985

Hi @JuliaHB1 - your claim here is highly misleading, and misunderstands #CovidTesting. I'll try explain why: firstly, the sensitivity of PCR #COVID19 test is ~98%, specificity 98.9%. Now, false positives

Michael Fralick

FralickMike

Today I entered a rabbit hole and learned a ton about d-dimer. It was humbling to realize how little I knew about this pesky blood test. Here are some things

Cookie Monster's Ex

UrGirlSaigon

*bloop* They don’t want to confront Fanon’s specificity on their history of violence, in the savagery with which they’ve dealt with Natives and Black bodies and that their violence can

Kai Cheng, Priestess of the Old Religion

razorfemme

I honestly believe that there is a huge discussion to be had about free speech and - not "cancel culture" - but rather disposability culture on the left. But this

Will Quinn

wc_quinn

Great @wsj piece by my friends and former colleagues @kwheelbarger and @dustinrwalker on why @DeptofDefense should focus conventional assets on deterring China/Russia rather than surging to the Middle East on

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Cliff Notes of 4 papers that Dissolve the Corman-Drosten RT-qPCR test. https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1335357508618252289?s=20 We'll start with Muenchhoff et al. published in Eurosurveillance which concludes with Charite'

Dan Morgan

dr_dmorgan

We set out to identify the sensitivity & specificity of common tests for #COVID19 along w/ @dan_diekema , @Anthony98947615 w/ @CDCgov supportA simple enough task, right? I’ve seen tweets by

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

THREAD: Incredible new study results for rapid antigen test by ⁦@AbbottNews⁩ BinaxNOWIn KIDS and adults; with symptoms and fully asymptomatic. Sensitivity:100% at Ct

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