#Testing

Lorrie Goldstein

sunlorrie

Friend had to get a COVID-19 test because he has a cold and is going into hospital for minor surgery. So, coughing and hacking, he waits 3 hours in line

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/It’s easy & obvious to say we need more testing to stop this epidemic. (I have been guilty of this too.)When we say ‘test, test, test’ or ‘mass testing’, we

Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠

EveryCountry

I'll give you one example of how devastating #NoDeal will be. AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant. It accounts for a full 1% of the UK's export GDP. Just AstraZeneca.

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Closing schools for 6 weeks is one thing; closing them for a year is another entirely. We need to prioritize reopening schools, especially K-5, over just about everything else. Given

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Lessons from Iceland, a model country for #COVID19 containment, from extensive population testing and virus sequencinghttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2006100?query=featured_home @NEJM I want to add 2 notable points I learned from this rep

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

.@weijia: Why is this a global competition to you when Americans are losing their lives every day?TRUMP: Maybe that's a question you should ask China.WEIJA: Why are you saying that

Andy Davies

adavies4

Interesting. Latest @PublicHealthW data shows 1005 #COVID19 tests carried out in Wales on 10th April. My understanding is they have daily capacity to test more (as @WelshGovernment repeatedly said they’d

Britt Ghiroli

Britt_Ghiroli

I appreciate everyone in my mentions who is telling/complaining about their own COVID delayed results. But this isn't about me or you. This is about a billion dollar league and

Lyle Fettig

FettigLyle

1/ Why would I, a physician, "downvote" a true statement about a negative COVID test giving an individual person false reassurance? B/c it missed the public health forest from the

Katie Razzall

katierazz

Thoughts for what's it's worth on mass testing after a day or two in Liverpool. Our story on @BBCNewsnight tonight reveals that the testing pilot is failing to reach the

dalty

bathdalts

The #GRE is already better at measuring barriers to access than actual student ability, but with COVID-19, graduate programs should absolutely make it an optional part of the application. A

Kathy Lueders

KathyLueders

We are making a lot of good progress with @SpaceX on engine testing to better understand the unexpected behavior observed during a recent non-NASA launch. (1/5) It’s too early to

mike schussler

mikeschussler

Do lockdowns work? Countries with less mobility from 5 activities such as work, public transport over last 4 months seem to have highest death rates. (Red equals at least 3

Sean McDonald

seanmmcdonald

"San Francisco and Alameda are among at least 28 counties, including Los Angeles, where California has paid Verily to boost testing capacity through contracts collectively worth $55 million...https://www.kqed.org/news/11843885/verilys-

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. There's a perverse notion I keep hearing; it sure looks like an excuse to avoid doing things that people know they ought to be doing. It's that imperfect disease

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher

thrasherxy

Means testing breeds resentment, up and down.The poor/middle class hate being tested to prove they "deserve" something. The rich resent that a thing they "don't use" exists AT ALL &