#Swab

So we just landed in New Zealand. Temperature checks and symptoms screening on landing. Now taken on a bus to a quarantine hotel for two weeks in Auckland. This is
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Teamwork... This ought to rattle some cages...1) RaTG13 is incapable of binding to a bat or a pangolin (no binding observed), and is less than 1/1000 the affinity to humans
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I had noticed over the wkend that several HKers were sharing my previous stories on China's DNA surveillance program in relation to the news that Chinese experts had arrived in
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It's being widely reported that 1 dose of the Astra/Oxford vaccine reduces transmission by 67%. My understanding is that this is not what the paper shows, or what the authors
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Calamities are reason why we form a government. We provide government with the organization, manpower, money, resources and training to address emergencies in any part of the country. We expect
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A Rapid Response Thread for http://modernsocietyinitiative.org  (@msiuk_)"What is going wrong with #COVIDUK test and trace?"Sept 10th 2020Full article: https://modernsocietyinitiative.org/latest-research/f/rapid-response-what
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Strap in folks... here's the story of me, the boy, COVID and the never-ending quarantine. On Thursday Jan. 7 we find out the boy had a prolonged exposure, on January
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In U.K. in spring there was an v strong relationship between covid19 deaths & excess deaths. Correlation isn’t causation but it’s strong evidence - in spring - that the one
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I've been a hearing a lot about how children are more infectious *now* & contribute to transmission because of the B117 variant, but didn't before. This is a myth. Children
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No Sunday let up despite reduced reporting.54,990 new casesBut look at positives by swab date Last Tues (29th) now just short of 80k casesLast Wed (30th) already 60k and likely
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SAGE is using a figure of 1% false positive results. I think it is a little lower ~0.8% for Pillar 2. False positives are a function of the population tested
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No - 30% rejection rate for #covid19aus testing is in Vic terrible. We've had 18,000 arrivals, 1-2% of them are positive. Yes, uptake of test is better in those who
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ALOHA may be in troubleStart. Aug 1 you can go to Hawaii w/out 14d quarantineJust $150 to get #COVID19 test 72 hrs before flight & if negative & no fever
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Why Boris Johnson's "moonshot" plan may not be a great idea.A brief thread... So our beloved PM has a vision of a "moonshot"; carrying out 10 million rapid COVID-19 tests
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A thread on #COVID19 symptoms and treatment.I rarely do online consultation or give any medical advice on social media but I have seen so many myths and false beliefs about
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Very interesting @WSJ about latest understanding regarding Covid-19 transmission: Six months into the coronavirus crisis, there’s a growing consensus about a central question: How do people become infected?https://www.wsj.com/articles/how
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