#Swab

aure

maureviv

Sensitivity of a PCR from a swab sample is a funny conceptPCR itself is extremely sensitive, now it should be very specific as wellBut provided that the swab captures RNA

Jesus Jiménez

jesus_jimz

Well, after months of covering Covid-19, it appears I've contracted it. Thankfully, so far, I'm asymptomatic. Once tests were widely available this summer, I got in the habit of getting

Christopher Lee

MudPhud07

I just heard that pharmacies are getting paid $42 for each asymptomatic Covid swab they do. When I see a patient with an upper respiratory infection in the ER during

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

If you are in the UK, this is the serial dilution of the test being run on you for C19. For each 10 fold drop in Copies/ml, you should see

Gerald

geraldmbarry

What great timing to illustrate a point. The English cricket team are in Sri Lanka at the moment. A few days before departure the whole team tested negative by PCR

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

For anyone wondering what a best-in-class rapid antigen test looks like. This is the @AbbottNews PanBio rapid antigen test. If you lift up the plastic top (which is cheap) it

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some of the replies to this have made it clear people still think Covid tests are all painful, and would avoid them. That's *not true*. Thisis a swab for a

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Please allow me to go back to this question of "do vaccines prevent transmission?". What do vaccines do? Stimulate antibody (from B cells) and T cell responses (not often measured)

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

You know why they didn't try anything like this in the 1970s? Because a generation which remembered WW2 & were still strong enough would not have let them. Politicians were

Michele

Jessica98658730

This is what they are putting on the ends of the swabs for covid testing. They are 666 chipping people.https://twitter.com/JuneUchino/status/1294855161467138048 The Swab is inserted into their limbic system which surrounds

Lea Starita

lea_starita

Massively scaling SARS-CoV-2 testing would require at-home swab collection. We asked if errors made during at-home collection for @seattleflustudy precluded detection of pathogens by PCR. Short answer — they don’t.This

Stuart Ray

soupvector

OP swab obtained in Milan #Italy on 5 Dec 2019 from a 4yo boy (measles suspected, d14 of Sx) positive for #SARSCoV2 RNA (GenBank https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MW303957). Lab reportedly SCV2-free, finding repeated,

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Study showing that children can be infected with #SARSCoV2, but still test negative.Two parents infected their 3 children, who tested negative 11 times (NP swab PCR test). Antibody blood tests

Sarah Gower MD

GowerMD

A final plea for this holiday. Please stay with your own household. It's hard not to see loved ones. But we'll see them soon, the vaccine has arrived, warmer weather

Adam Jacobs 💙

statsguyuk

Watching @nadhimzahawi on #SkyNews this morning, I think I've figured out how the government are going to fiddle the figures on how many people have been vaccinated, so that they

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

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