#Testing

Tomer Burg

burgwx

On a day where the US had by far its largest daily deaths yet (+1965), and surpassed the estimated H1N1 pandemic total deaths (up to 12,835 deaths this evening), I'll

Roger Galligan

RogerGalligan

More clarity on False Positives . My calcs w/ 99.25% Specificity (& assume 80% sensitivity & prevalance of 2.2% in tested cohort) -> Positive Predictive Value of 70.58% and Positive

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

Im getting a lot of Ebola flashbacks with #COVID19.As many of you know, I worked as a doctor in West Africa during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. I was infected but

Ian Mulheirn

ianmulheirn

The government isn't keen to discuss #covid19 exit strategies. But when it does move it will need to take people with it. So the debate needs to start now. A

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

"Governors are supposed to do testing. It's up to the governors. Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. The governors are doing the testing. It's now not up, and it hasn't been up, to

jon kirby

jonkirbysthlm

To determine if someone has Covid they’re using a pcr test, this is what they base all the excuses for the new abnormal which will soon take away everything you

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. Some hard facts to explain why Testing, testing, testing is not enoughIn our @RockefellerFdn action plan we called for 35 million tests/week, scaling up over the next 6 months

Jane McManus

janesports

There will not be sports until we have testing, because we can’t function as a society until then. Sports are a sign of a highly functioning society. Instead of worrying

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

Trying to make sense of the daily reported COVID case numbers in Ontario is a source of great frustration right now. Particularly in the face of changes in who can

C. Michael Gibson MD

CMichaelGibson

BREAKING: Of 408 homeless residents of Boston’s Pine Street Inn, 147 (36.0%) were PCR + for #coronavirus. Symptoms were not frequent: Cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%)

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I'm puzzled about the timing here. It's not clear to me that both POTUS and FLOTUS would be testing positive 48 hours after exposure. Prior exposure? Others infected? https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919344239/trump-adviser-hope-hicks

Zach Rosenthal

z_rosenthal

I’m going to try a Twitter thread/rant about COVID-19, @UVA, and @JMU, so bear with me here. I've never tried something like this, but I'm somewhat frustrated (1/x) Today, @JMU

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

New York compared with Liverpool: SchoolsA Thread The @WSJ is reporting that"New York City on Wednesday will close public schools and nonessential businesses in parts of Brooklyn and Queens that

Brian Bateson

Bateson_AB

Some people are losing their heads over the notion that Alberta will pursue potential solutions related to the #COVID19 pandemic that have been approved by world leading regulators but have

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

A pretty great thread summarising medical/public health interventions which sounded logical and like the obvious thing to do, but RCTs showed they weren't.Nice @lancet article on screening linked here also.And

George Colgrove III ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Midnight Rider

colgrove11

The New York Times recently reported that it’s likely 90% of the COVID positives from testing (or as the medical/media industrial complex and politicians refer to as cases) are likely