#Tests

Tim Harford

TimHarford

1/ For many weeks now, @katelamble has been reporting on @BBCMoreOrLess about the government's misleading insistence on counting test kits posted out as though the tests had been completed and

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Rapid Antigen tests for #COVID19 in UK are working! Purpose is to rapidly identify infectious people - that is exactly what they are doing!And doing it very well!With an R=1.4,

Chris McGuigan

chrismcguigan

At this stage will literally consider *anything* to reopen venues. But there are some massive logistical, practical and policy hurdles to overcome in using rapid-testing to reopen theatres. For a

Peter Gillibrand

GillibrandPeter

NEW: Wales' coronavirus case rate has dropped substantially and is now closer to 400 cases per 100,000 people. It's currently at 436 - but just 8 days ago the rate

IMSureMan 🇨🇦 ⛷

sherwhizt

1/10 Long thread: BC CDC data is being manipulated months after first release to fit govt agenda.For each Health Authority, Unknowns in daily data are for undetermined age. They get

Martin Myers

Martin1Myers

There are 4 Pillars. Pillar 1 labs test the Swab by a technique called RT PCR, to see whether the patient has current infection with #SARS_CoV_2. This test is delivered

Jeff Adelson

jadelson

There's a false conspiracy theory going around conservative circles: La. is inflating cases by counting ppl multiple times if they take addt'l tests to prove they are no longer infectious

Kevin Schwartz

DrKevinSchwartz

Canada has been reluctant to embrace rapid tests. This Harvard epidemiologist says we can’t afford to wait | The Starhttps://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/12/06/canada-has-been-reluctant-to-embrace-rapid-tests-this-harvard-epidemi

Arieh Kovler

ariehkovler

A study by Clalit, Israel's largest HMO, shows a 33% drop in detectable Sars-CoV-2 virus by PCR in over-60s 14 days after their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Study

Shahed Chowdhuri @ Microsoft

shahedC

Tom Cruise programmer’s GIF thread: 1/ when you complete your first “Hello World” program 2/ when you store app secrets with your source code then realize you should use environment

Hold2

Hold2LLC

AZ COV2 Positivity Update: 12/16/20AZDHS updated the dashboard by adding a "Tests Conducted" tab to the Testing section.We now know 1.85M Diagnostic tests have not been reported, and the Pos%

Rukmini S

Rukmini

Here's a new problem for India's testing data: states like Delhi are conducting both RT-PCR tests and antigen tests, but reporting positive test numbers combined. Antigen tests have much more

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

Morning. A reminder that positive tests (CASES, per @cnn) for #Covid have now completely decoupled from deaths. These charts show trends in positive tests versus reported deaths with either a

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

@ADMBriggs @chrischirp These discrepancies are bothering a lot of us given the existing 5 million + “lost” data on “tests (supposedly) made available” v “tests processed” before DHSC changed their

Mia Eisner-Grynberg

MiaEG_PD

.@NYCMayor and @UFT Mulgrew consistently state that the reason our middle and high schools are closed, indefinitely, is a lack of testing capacity. That's a lie. 1/5 @elizashapiro @Jill_Jorgensen @JuanMaBenitez

John Roberts

JohnGRoberts

Three exclusives on school Covid testing today. First up the warning that the DfE plan to use rapid tests to keep close contacts of the virus in school actually goes

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