#Testing

Summer Brennan 🌈

summerbrennan

Everyone who thinks they may have symptomatic Covid should be checked by a doctor before Day 7 of the illness, and this doctor should be aware of how Covid works.

Peel

RHPeel

Remember the Great Barrington Declaration? Anyone involved in that admit they were deeply wrong? A lot of the disconnects over covid mitigation come down to a very simple premise: we

James Wilson

jamewils

Many here asked what worries me most about India's #COVID19 trajectory based on tests dataAnswer is look at the number of tests needed to confirm a positive case, call it

Governor Kate Brown

OregonGovBrown

New York needs more ventilators, and we are answering their call for help.We'll be sending 140 ventilators to help NY because Oregon is in a better position right now. We

Allister Hill

BoomChatter

They work folks! #Masks4All https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1246048594672537606 BUT! It's worth keeping in mind (especially in everyday use and with non-sterile ones) that masks may not work to protect you, but rather to

Justin McElroy

j_mcelroy

572 cases of #COVID19 in B.C. today, the lowest number since March 20, as B.C.'s curve continues to bend down at a VERY encouraging pace. Hospitalizations down to 481, and

serving temasek city style!!!!

ngyiyang

Why would you want to obfuscate trends for the sake of "solidarity"? Like yes I totally agree. Migrant workers should be part of the community. But the fact remains that

Jon Burke FRSA

jonburkeUK

1/ On 31 March 2020, a thirteen year-old boy called Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab died at King’s College Hospital after contracting coronavirus.“Sadly he died without any family members”, because they dutifully

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

BREAKINGToday, the US will have a new record of cases.Deaths will pass 1,000 for the first time in July. And they will keep going up.Thread.Deaths & cases are both lowest

Marta Serra

m_serra_garcia

*New WP*Demand for COVID-19 Antibody Testing, and Why It Should Be Freehttps://ssrn.com/abstract=3607484 In an incentivized experiment (w/ Nora Szech, @KITKarlsruhe) on US representative sample, - 4 out of 5 want

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Some #COVID19 rates: their meanings and implications (very roughly). Thread.- recovery rate- case fatality rate- infection fatality rate- mortality rate- test positivity rate- case detection rate Recovery rate: % of

David Montgomery

dhmontgomery

Minnesota has recently seen its #COVID19 case rates shoot up to record highs… …but its rise is tiny compared to its neighbors, even without controlling for testing volume. More graphs

Missouri History Museum

mohistorymuseum

First an inspired but unproven idea went viral in an unlikely social network. Then crowd-sourced science did what seemed impossible: stopped above-ground nuclear weapons testing at the height of the

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.htmlDoes this ring any bells?It’s a now-classic ‘PCR false positive pseudo epidemic’.Different infectious organism (a gram-negative bacterium) & disease (whooping cough) but all th

Sean Mitchell

seanmmitchell

A #FSDBeta thread: Executive Summary - 1) I have been an @Tesla FSD skeptic for many years, largely unimpressed by Autopilot/FSD's claims versus its abilities. This beta appears to be

nxthompson

nxthompson

My daily coronavirus thread... Mass testing capacity will be necessary for us to emerge from lockdown. So, yes, we need tests that can be performed in airports, clinics, and perhaps