#Testing

Ralph Northam

GovernorVA

.@VDHgov has been reporting all tests, regardless of the type of test, since the beginning of this health crisis. When I found out recently that data from all types of

Andrew Smith

Andrew_MSmith

The reason mistaken identification rates increase when witnessing or testing conditions get worse is because witnesses lower their criterion for making an affirmative identification. Paper accepted at #JARMAC Thread.https://www.researchgate

MaryAnn Hendrickson 💛🏴‍☠️

AnnHendrickson1

A message to parents of servicemembers: when you turned over your sons and daughters to the military, there was an implicit contract. The services are supposed to do their best

Wendell Pierce

WendellPierce

I discovered most of my family and friends haven’t been tested for Covid 19. I get tested weekly. @nolaready Here in NOLA the testing is available daily. People don’t understand

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

Germany is considering "immunity certificates" for people who have positive antibody tests. This is hugely premature for at least three reasons. A short thread. a) The tests we have now

Eric M. Furst

EMFurst

As a home-bound experimentalist and Philly resident (who hasn't quite gotten around to setting up a lab in the basement), I've been taking a look at data, new and old...

Jason Fagone

jfagone

Another explanation for the COVID-19 testing backlog in California — hospitals & clinics are using slower, bottlenecked testing pipelines instead of fast academic labs that have capacity to sparehttps://twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/12482915391444

Dr Godfrey Gandawa

DrGGandawa

1/6 The lockdown in Zimbabwe is on course to fail for a number of reasons. This is unsurprising because, from the beginning, govt misunderstood the mechanics of a lockdown which

Cait

cait_shortell

Alaska has less than 200 ICU beds in the whole state but the gov just said we are opening up next week as, "people have been walking around with some

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

Well someone's never been in a room with 30 five year oldshttps://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1280548761417191431 There are no easy answers here, but a few things would make opening schools better: frequent testing of

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

We've always had respiratory diseases but we never mandated stay at home lockdown orders or face masks. That's because there was never any evidence for either. There still isn't. Epidemiological

Michael Walker

michaeljswalker

Why is the government's messaging on testing all over the place? [THREAD] 1 - The best way to limit human and economic costs of coronavirus is test-and-trace. The reason this

Prof Shamika Ravi

ShamikaRavi

How is #Bihar doing? #COVID19India #StateHealth 1) With 13th highest case load in India (

Caroline Coram

CarolineCoramUK

This morning I have come to the conclusion that it is unlikely our labs in the UK are testing for Coronavirus. Not least because of the highly detailed thread from

Mathang Seshagiri

mathangcito

Thread on important stories on #COVID19 testing in India There are 51 private labs with 16k sample collection centres across India. They are collectively testing less than 500 samples a

Noah Hendrix

TheNoahHendrix

So I'm revising some of my COVID thoughts200k deaths by June isn't happening. Right now we are stable at around 1500-2000 per dayI now think we are at the end