#Testing

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdfThe operational false positive rate of the widely used PCR test is so large that ALL the mass testing data since June should be flushed. Think of cities & areas

NHS Providers

NHSProviders

Here’s a quick summary of how community health providers are working hand in glove with social care on #COVID19. With @NHSConfed, NHS Providers established the Community Network as their national

foreshadowboxer

foreshadowboxer

My nephew was sent home from school sick on a Monday, tested positive on Tuesday, and the IN Dept of Health implied he likely contracted it from a school bus

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

18,138 tests (334,974 total). still. Good.5,233 +ve (78,991 total). 3.46 tests for 1 +ve. Suggests broader testing12,993 people (269,598 Total) 917 HOSPITAL deaths (9,875 Total). 12.5%. STILL no

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

ReichlinMelnick

Extraordinarily troubling emails from GEO’s ICE detention center in Mesa Verde reveal that local ICE outright rejected the option of widespread COVID testing because they knew it would cause “housing

scott cunningham

causalinf

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

José Trinidad ☀️🥑🏳️‍🌈

JoseTCastaneda3

Hey y'all! I'll be livetweeting #Irvine City Council's discussion on #CommunityChoiceEnergy (Item 4.1) tonight, which should begin soon after closed session.You can watch the livestream here. http://legacy.cityofirvine.org/cityh

Joe Hasell

JoeHasell

Where testing is limited, confirmed cases are limited.The number of tests per confirmed case can give us an indication of how much trust we can place on confirmed cases in

Drei

_drei

Dr. Salvana is LYING, no wonder DOH is also lying. Active cases in Japan has fallen from 11K to only 4K, while recovery rate of closed cases is at 93.8%.

Lauren Caruba

LaurenCaruba

Wow, from reading this thread you’d think San Antonio was inflating its COVID case counts. That would be a big deal! Here’s what’s actually happening.https://twitter.com/steveeagar/status/1283575782175014916 Like PCR tests, antigen te

David Boyles

DavidBoyles3

Some notes on the ASU Covid data published last night. First, ASU is STILL lying about its positivity rates by calculating based on total population instead of people tested. This

Dr. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

nataliapetrzela

The idea that ignoring/euphemizing learning loss is some sort of altruistic social justice move is absolutely bonkersMeasuring learning loss need not be stigmatizing; it's a necessary step to establish need

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ Gov. Greg Abbott promised that all those who need a coronavirus test “will get one.”But tests are scarce near the border, where there is a large at-risk population.Counties are

Unite against COVID-19

covid19nz

Update from the @minhealthnz Today we have 1 new case of COVID-19 to report in managed isolation facilities in New Zealand. It has been 76 days since the last case

Ted Genoways

TedGenoways

#Big10 football players will be tested daily for #COVID19. Many meatpacking plant employees—declared essential workers by the federal government—in the Big 10 region can't get adequate testing for themselves or

Gretchen M Welch

GGratchan

Asked Nate if I could tweet about his experience after being confirmed as a presumptive positive as an essential worker. Thread. First things first: we only called the doctor again