#Tests

Kathy Benison

KathyBenison

#AcademicTwitter This summer, I taught a 3-week long online Intro Geology course to ~30 students. Here are 10 things that I learned: 1. Many of my students assumed that online

Laura McWhirter

lauramcw

New paper now out online in @jnnp with @jonstoneneuro, @craig_ritchie68 and @AlanCarson15 This is a systematic review of performance validity test performance in clinical populations (Thread 1/12)http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/jnnp-20

Myles McNulty

MylesMcNulty

Some significant developments in the #COVID19 LFT market in recent days, re: #AVCT:i) Innova's test has taken a lot of flack in the press (sens. of 49% - although that

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

You know people -- maybe you're one of them -- who were sick with Covid, but tested negative for antibodies. Why would that be? Blame the tests. They miss antibodies

Moriarty

MoriartyProfJ

Ok I have done some rough maths.Most recent national figure is roughly 312k tests with 21k positive which gives a 6.7% rateHastings has 90k population. Today 414 positive which means

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

This is a deep dive into the Covid situation in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California.Afterall, we're seeing a huge jump in cases!But let's look behind the case numbers being reported

Alex Selby

alexselby1770

Here (a few tweets down) is a model of the prevalence of B.1.1.7 based on the breakdown of PCR tests by genes N, OR and S. This follows the ONS

Valera Zakharov

valera_zakharov

Developer experience is tied at the hip with the codebase structure, architecture and other aspects that do not fall under the traditional scope of "dev tools" teams. So it’s important

Amy Hunt

Amesmaster

So, Govt has announced a "package of measures" it says will support schools around exams, tests and accountability: thread (1/5) @NEUnion @MoreThanScore Exams Advance notice of exam topics & aids

#IfScientistsAndThePeopleTrustedGovernment

CaribeWellness

Know Your COVID Tests; Don't Get DupedThere are different types of tests for COVID. - PCR (this tests for the genes of the virus. Very similar to looking for DNA

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/ Based on our work on Ebola & Zika, when Covid hit in January, we called for mass screening with rapid tests as a way to stop Covid in US

Lisa Childs

LisaChildsAR

On June 19, UAMS shared a very scary forecast. Arkansas would hit 18,000 positive tests about July 7, and peak with 150,000 active cases by the end of September. Viewed

Ryan McNamara 🧬

Ryan_Mac_Phd

Been seeing this preprint make the rounds about mass rapid antigen testing and a decrease in SARS-CoV-2 spread in Slovakia. Readers will logically ask: "why we can't do this in

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

Hmm, not really. Look at this:https://twitter.com/melissagrelo/status/1339772726475706368 This corresponds to a prevalence of 1,583 cases per 100,000 asymptomatic individuals. It is extremely high for an asymptomatic population. There are c

Sarah

sarahlovesears

Thread. Related to my @AudOTB discussions about hearing vs. understanding earlier this week, a perfect example came up in a spoken English conversation with my spouse. All of the examples

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

KendraWrites

You have to get to the 18th paragraph before the author states plainly that Ashley Bronczek violated the rules designed to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 in every way, because

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