#Tests

If you can answer all these questions, you can let kids back in school:If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their
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THREAD: Here was my experience with the @VaultHealth_ in-home, COVID-19 saliva test that @mnhealth is touting: I ordered it online last Friday morning. This part was easy. But.... ...It was
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F.I.R.S.T principles of testing- Fast- Isolated/Independent- Repeatable- Self-validating- Timely Thread FastYou should be able to run the unit tests at any point of their development cycle.Even if there are thousands
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In July 2017, I was asked by DCLG to be the independent expert to verify their 8414 ACM testing program at the BRE. On July 21st, I visited the BRE
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The idea of regular testing with cheap/inaccurate #COVID19 (‘dipsticks’) tests may sound appealing, but as with most simple ideas, there are problems. I won't go into the economic, or logistic
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1/ @triciawang Thank you! Thread here with some stuff on Cohorts. I haven't seen anyone else break them down the way I did, but plenty of other people / companies
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IMPORTANT:Particularly for UK There’s been a LOT of concern about UK rapid antigen test program. But here, the very tweet supposed to be showing it is failing, it shows it’s
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I think a lot of the discourse around new rapid tests has become slightly toxic.They have clear advantages & limitations, and I think I have covered this clearly enough in
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A thread on the Covid-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel's first report - full report here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/medical-devices/testing-screening-advisory-pa
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PSA for the 'screening saves lives' brigade:Screening tests are designed to find conditions or risk factors for disease in people who do not have symptoms.They can be very inaccurate and
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Here's a story of an ongoing personal journey of mine -- that makes it clear to me the vastness of the COVID spread across Phoenix is still so little understood:I
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I've uncovered that DC calculates 7-day average positivity in an incredibly dumb way, which has led to an overestimation in the positivity rate by an average of 0.35% [in my
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A few weeks ago, I heard scattered rumors about bizarre positives coming out of coronavirus testing programs at universities.It didn't seem to be the coronavirus. It also wasn't contamination in
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10 Sep: India crossed 4.5M reported #COVID19 cases & 76304 deaths This thread shows important trends national, state & district level6.3 lakh new cases & 7735 deaths were added in
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Just spoke to a good friend of mine who I did my nurse training with years ago. Works in a busy North London Hospital, in pre assessment for surgery. Last
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If there’s a lesson from the pandemic, it is that the US failed not because of central planning and coordination, but lack thereof.https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1346276342027849728 Wasn't going to do this thread, but
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