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Michael Mina
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My brother is an amazing soul. When the pandemic started and schools shut down, kids in Saratoga Springs,NY who relied on free school lunches for food, lost those lunches. He,
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NEW RESULTS:Rapid Antigen tests work v well!Not all are same - Some much better than othersThis paper is a masterclass of how to study AND interpret the use of #COVID19
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“studies 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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Here, we evaluated the economic return on investment of this plan had we started in June - Dec 2020. The version described above is shown in panel CCosts (all included)
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Moving in right direction to reverse outbreaksHere's how:At-home frequent rapid tests10M/day ->pool 2 ppl/test ->20M ppl tested/day ->Ea house tests 1x/wk ->140M ppl tested/wk!! ->Herd effects: R RAPIDLY
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NEW on Rapid Tests!Exceptional data that should help path to at-home highly accurate rapid testsIn over 860 samples tested w @AbbottNews BinaxNOW, only ONE was falsely positive! The Specificity was
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Wow! Good news! Pfizer press release says vaccine 90% effective at preventing symptomatic #COVID19!If results hold, this is a very good efficacy for a vaccine, higher than I was expecting,
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A new article in @nytimes states rapid tests falter in asymptomaticsWarning of their use for asymptomatic screeningSays: among random asymptomatic #COVID19 screens, Rapid Tests caught only 32% of PCR +ve
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Can contact tracing work for #COVID19?Much effort assumes contact tracing works for COVID - surveillance testing assumes soI’ve had major concerns - this paper reinforces it.For fast pandemics, we cant
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So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing
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Huge news!!Executive order / HHS has removed the requirements for EUA approvals for CLIA LABORATORY based tests. What does this mean and why does it matter...?First and foremost - this
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The massive confusion created by the media and the announcement of SalivaDirect for #COVID19 testing needs to be cleared up. Yesterday I wrote a long tweet thread about it. The
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