#Testing

Yaron Brook

yaronbrook

84% of deaths in Italy attributed to Coronavirus, were 70 years old or older... This suggests where our focus should be in term of isolating and testing...

Wendell Pierce

WendellPierce

If I were President: • Truly enact Defense Production Act and mandate 30 companies to manufacture Testing Products 24/7. 30 companies manufacture PPE. 30 manufacturing ventilators. Workforce hiring from the

Dr Lidiya Angelova - Censored by LinkedIn and WHO

angelovalidiya

Tip how to end #covid19craze:1)Ask your government healtcare representatives about peer reviewed scientific evidence that #lockdowns, #masks and vaccine will stop the #coronavirus.Don't accept WHO as source ask about peer

Jim Bianco

biancoresearch

US infections made a new record today, topping 70,000.(1/5)@chrismartenson @ErikSTownsend @MishGEA @ttmygh @EpsilonTheory This is not merely more testing (bottom panel), but also a rise in the positivity rate (top

Dr Gaetan Burgio, MD, PhD.

GaetanBurgio

Here is an update on #COVID19 in Australia. Today 5,556 (+198) detected cases, 699 (+51) recovered (not reliable), death 30(+2). Good news, detected cases curve is flattening, 5 days in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Folks—WH’s defense strategy failed miserably—we epidemiologists think it was a silent asymptotical carrier who evaded the WH testing fence around Trump. But they relied on just that one single fence

tyro

DoubleEph

As you guys know, I’m now a highly sought after corona expert on Twitter. So I want to share some random thoughts that came to me while I was in

Anne A Madden, Ph.D.

AnneAMadden

I had a Covid-19 test today as a symptomatic individual in Massachusetts. Things went well... except when they went terribly. Here are my key takeaways on the process & the

Charlie Robertson

RencapMan

The US was very slow to do coronavirus testing but has now done so much (and found so many) that US states account for half the top countries/US states in

Richard Warnica

richardwarnica

So back at the end of September, when the testing numbers surged in Ontario and labs started backing up and samples basically stopped moving out with any kind of speed

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

BREAKING (not so surprising) NEWS: The Trump Admin is touting rapid antigen paper tests. The @AbbottNews BinaxNOW assay is terrific and is a great start. But don’t be fooled -

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: Many analyses try to estimate what the “right” capacity is for weekly #COVID19 testing. One touchstone is positivity rates. Unless diagnostic tests are being administered with unusual precision only

Paul Reynolds

paulrey99

The mandatory elements of Govt's Covid strategy are a direct & dystopian threat to liberty. Many see this & will will not report they are symptomatic for fear of this

Paul Romer

paulmromer

The twitter thread version of my plan: 0. Stop testing people with symptoms. Presume positive and isolate. 1. Offer all frontline health care workers a quick turnaround molecular test for

Nicolas VdL

nivdlind

In a recent narrative review, Scott & Scott concluded that on-site pill testing lacks evidence of efficacy and proposed a cut on public funding until efficacy is properly demonstrated. Here's

James S Murphy

James_S_Murphy

This is a flawed story from the NYT because it makes a basic logical mistake: it does not distinguish between necessary and sufficient conditions.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/14/opinion/politics/covid-school-reopening-guideli