#Testing

jess #MiXXXY

jesshandlethis

Learned some horrible shit about covid today. This country is disgusting btw. Medication used to treat covid is only being provided to 1-2 pharmacies in particular areas usually associated

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

The US is in the midst of a definitional national emergency. While COVID is in steep decline in most of Europe and East Asia, case loads are growing exponential in

David Fisman

DFisman

I would like to unpack Dr Yaffe’s comments (?) that once 3 people in a ltcf test positive for covid an outbreak is presumed and no further testing is required.1.

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Seeing this claim more and more - that models were the main basis for shelter-in-place orders, so any revision in the model means the orders were overkill.It's total rubbish. The

Charles and a Good Right Hook

CharlesTwisted

A caregiver journey.It started with fighting the healthcare system to get my mother properly diagnosed. Then the fight evolved into getting her surgery, and follow up chemotherapy, all while making

John B

johnb78

This is a really odd thread, and disappointing work from Grattan, who are usually at least thoughtful and honest. The argument is explicitly based on the false dilemma of "zero

File411

File411

Award ID - 70FB7020P00000020$3,000,000.00 for 600K test?So maybe Trump did direct FEMA to cut the po on 4/6/2020 - I can’t wrap my head around how fucked up this admin

Caryn Brown

WolfWalker65

Fauci Wrong? A Mini on the Nature of Science.Science is not static it is ever changing and changeable.Scientific knowledge is gained through Scientific Inquiry - asking questions, observation, experimentation, data

Robert Busch

robert_busch65

Ending the UK's belated lockdown without an exit strategy to control virus transmission by other means (eg test/contact-trace/isolate/maintain social distancing, have public wear masks) is the worst plan of all:

Jake Sherman

JakeSherman

Playbook this AM:IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON PLANET EARTH, the vice president is suggesting that doctors “recycle gowns” because hospitals don’t have enough. IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON PLANET EARTH,

Andrew Neil

afneil

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT THREAD: US intelligence agencies have told the White House that Chinese government itself does not know the extent of the coronavirus and has no better

Tasdik Rahman

tasdikrahman

One thing which I tried doing differently this time with one of my side projects is to do TDD from the start. Someone may ask why? It's just a side

LGF @ HOME

lgflanagan

I read a lot of longform stuff and have had some friends ask for my reading recommendations during #COVID19. Going to keep a thread (and pin it for a bit)

Mike Bird

Birdyword

A herd immunity data point: Borough Park in NYC has one of the highest antibody rates seen in the developed world: 43.9%, based on a huge testing program covering almost

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

If we want to avoid a barter economy, we need to stop the exponential growth of debt coupled with the perilous decline of employment. That raises tough legal questions on

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

If this guy's math is right, and I find it to be generally convincing, we should expect to see 100,000-500,000 Americans die of Covid-19 *this month*, and his math only