#Tests

Missed the speech live and catching up now. Let me get this straight: - Despite track and trace failing months ago, we're meant to rely on it now- We have
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Positive swabs down 400 on yesterday to 3457 but thats on 5500 fewer tests & positivity has increased to 15.1% from 13.7%. 22,874 tests done which is still a lot
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Starting tomorrow rapid testing in Alberta is being expanded to long-term care and designated supportive living facilities.Rapid tests help identify cases of #COVID19AB faster, so the infected person can isolate
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3 easily foreseeable logistics problems with Nationalโ€™s compulsory negative test policy before arrival in NZ...3 relatable scenarios: /1 1) NZer flies overseas for essential business. Contracts mild Covid. Attempts to
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The full results of the Liverpool LFT trial have been released.False positives are much lower than expected, but false negatives much worse.Liverpool has now paused plans to use the tests
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BREAKING: The number of lab-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations has doubled in less than two weeks in Texas. State is reporting new record high of 4,389 people in hospitals for the virus.
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THREAD: Totoo bang dumadami ang kaso ng COVID-19 sa Pilipinas dahil sa testing?Pag may time po kayo, sana ay mabasa nyo po ito at paki-RT pag sa tingin nyo po
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I predicted on June 12 that Delhi will have 90,000 #COVID19 cases as of June 30.Now Delhi Govt bulletin is released & the number of cases up to June 30
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โ€œstudies on these antigen tests have been... amongst symptomatic. So you need to appropriately study it [in asymptomatics]. Once you do that - then I think you can talk about
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The โ€œnew strainโ€ of the virus was already in Italy and France. Look at Francesโ€™s case numbers for late Nov. There is no actual evidence for it - only modelling.
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NEW DATA ALERT: the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center state pages now allow comparison of county-level COVID-19 case and testing data against key demographic information, including race and poverty level.
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1/22 Long thread: Imagine that BCCDC COVID-19 data is guarded like money in a bank (Bank of BCCDC). This bank has only 6 accounts: Fraser & Vancouver Coastal Health are
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My column this morning ventures into science fiction: what if everyone who was infectious glowed orange like the children in the Ready Brek ads? The answer: the virus would be
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BU just reported the following reassuring facts about campus re-opening:It has already collected 5,376 samples from 3,800+ incoming students. Number of positive tests?8 (0.2%).Returning students have infection rates lower than
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My daughter had me take a personality test that classified me as an introvert which surprised her because thinks I'm a clear extrovert. I went to med school when she
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