#Tests

Brianna Keilar

brikeilarcnn

Across the country, election workers and officials risked their health so Americans could vote during a coronavirus spike. Tonight, many are in quarantine after being exposed to the virus. In

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

James Thomas

JamesThomasHere

A thread: coronavirus in HerefordshireEvery week, the Hereford Times runs an article about the infection rate in the county. We say how it's changed over recent weeks, and how it

Adam Briggs

ADMBriggs

This is v helpful thread from @scienceshared.One thing missing is positive predictive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV) that crucially depend on what proportion of people being tested have

Jennifer Binis

JennBinis

There are 1000s of more important things for us to be talking about but Ravitch's outsized role in so many conversations is one of those things I hope makes it

John Bye

_johnbye

A recent study of results from the ONS Infection Survey seems to directly contradict many of the arguments put forward by people denying we've seen a second wave.Here are a

JK Flake 📈📏

JkayFlake

What? The GRE is not a face valid measure of quantitative + verbal reasoning? These discussions are off the rails. Validity evidence for the GRE is not lacking. You can

PeaceLove&Outrage ☮️💕😡

1980Dorothy

Now do it for schools. For our kids, their dedicated teachers,and all the the administrators, school nurses, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria staff, and every single person who provides educational support

Nick Lawyer

nick_lawyer

I was recently asked if increased testing could explain the recent increase in cases in MT. Short answer: nope.Long answer: nope, nope, and nope a Tests have indeed risen.

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

A reader flagged this to me a week or so ago. The Georgia site just keeps changing the color legend of their map to keep pass with th Ed outbreak.https://twitter.com/andishehnouraee/status/1284237474831761408

Danny Parkins

DannyParkins

The question leagues and fans have to answer is what’s the tolerance level going to be for positive tests and players having to be quarantined?Example: If what happened to the

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH

JenniferNuzzo

A long thread about test positivity: Tracking positivity is important. Unlike number of tests, positivity is linked to the number of infections out there. It can help give us a

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

33,470 positives. There is no clarity about where the Liverpool pilot cases using lateral flow rapid kits are being counted.But TESTS processed by pillar refers specifically to LAB processed and

Katherine Ellen Foley

katherineefoley

Last week, the US Capitol had a huge problem which has since been overshadowed: @US_FDA flagged that the @Curative #COVID19 PCR tests it had been to screen entrants had more

William M Briggs

FamedCelebrity

Cases Are Not Surging or Raging, Testing Is."Cases" are not cases. They are mostly merely infections, the majority of which are past, mild, asymptomatic, and false—i.e., not real. There are

Michael Eades, M.D.

DrEades

Here is some more data from New York. This is NY state, not just NYC.On the left are the daily death stats. On the right are the daily new cases,

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