#Testing

Another wrinkle in HHS's announcement about payments for uninsured COVID-19 patients. @AmyLotven reports that HHS claims that people with short-term plans won't count as "uninsured" for these purposes. That's (partially)
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1/x You'll be hearing a lot about the term "case fatality rate" in COVID-19 discussions. It's the reference indicator often used to compare how lethally bad COVID-19 is relative to
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On a panel & was asked if COVID-19 will help world prepare for the 'real' big one. I actually think SARS-CoV-2 is the big 'Disease X' experts warned about. We
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What are the limitations of observational registry studies? One major issue is confounding by indication. How physicians act is not the same as a Randomized Clinical Trial testing a therapy
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We are at the intersection of two crises: the racist violence of policing and the COVID19 pandemic - both which disproportionately harm Black people. Now is the time to ask:
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Today’s daily briefing for Friday, April 24, 2020, is about to get started. We’ll start with @DrAngelaCDunn from @UtahDepOfHealth and finish with @GovHerbert. #Utahcovid19 update from @DrAngelaCDunn Total positive cases:
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Ok, here is my problem with @ICMR numbers, According to a recent @TheLancet paper, the mortality rate of COVID-19 in China for symptomatic cases was 1.38%, if we compare it
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This summer will mark ten years since @TonyClementCPC tried to convince Canadians that shifting from a mandatory census to a voluntary survey wouldn't affect the quality of data. Not sure
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Sorry @ilhousegop. You're not helping matters with your report on COVID19. Let me show you why, & how you might put your political pull to better use to actually help
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The vast majority of COVID deaths in England since July have been mislabelled false positive deaths. Here is the proof. This chart shows the number of tests carried out in
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Looking at corona virus numbers, you do have to wonder if the science was right. Today UK had around the same new cases as Germany, France, Spain & Italy added
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1. It was a game of 2 halves.Yesterday was testing in Millhouses Park, Sheffield. Too many people treating this as a holiday: BBQ’s, football, stunts on bikes and scooters etc.
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Sharing this to give everyone an idea of how things can play out if you live in a coronavirus hot zone right now—ie how limited the system is despite best
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The start of the school year will be upon us before we all know it and the state has given no clear path forward for safe and healthy re-entry to
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ThreadOne of the federal govt's ring-in deputy CMOs, Nick Coatsworth, published an opinion piece in the @smh yesterday. It starts with a shockingly bad misrepresentation of events & propositions about
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I don't understand the British media. I really, really don't.Basic things: Ireland and the UK started this pandemic with roughly the same number of ICU beds (6.5 per 100,000 for
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