#Testing

Ralph Northam

GovernorVA

Testing is critically important as we move forward in the fight against #COVID19, and we will continue to work closely with hospitals, university health systems, commercial labs, and physicians across

Cap'n Transit

capntransit

If people really want to serve poor immigrants, DON'T EXCLUDE PEOPLE WITHOUT CARS! Why is this so hard for some people?https://twitter.com/WNYC/status/1247962491176566784 Telling that both of the medical professionals administering the

Pavan Srinath

zeusisdead

COVID-19: Karnataka aims to conduct 80,000 tests in three weeks. Fantastic if followed through. Awaiting more details as the article talks about antibody test kits - implying serological tests along

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

5 days ago, I tweeted that COVID trends in Texas were concerningOver past few days, data from TX has gone from bad to worseAnd I don't understand. Why is testing

Dr. Kate Clancy 🏳️‍🌈

KateClancy

University of Illinois admin are like Scooby Doo villains right now: "And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" If you had listened

FirstDerivative

FirstDerivative

Let's discuss the reason NCAA sports shouldn't happen... /1 The United States currently has a testing capacity of approximately 675,000 tests a day. There are roughly 70,000 NCAA football participants

Laura Stone

l_stone

Premier Ford is up extolling the "robust" testing system; Ontario has completed 4 million tests, which he says is more than the other provinces combined. #onpoli "We have eliminated the

jon kirby

jonkirbysthlm

The main excuse the govts are using to force control and disruption to our everyday lives is Case Numbers. This thread is going to be looking at the pcr tests

Crew Libertas

CrewLibertas

So, let’s just see what we know so far. Please add to the list of I’ve missed something. -COVID is less deadly to those under 65 than the flu-The country

Senator John Cornyn

JohnCornyn

By themselves, the number of tests don't tell us much. CDC says "not everyone needs to be tested for COVID-19," https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.htmlgoing. "Most people have mild illness and are ab

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

A thread on PCR testing and cycle thresholds. More details are available in the linked article: 1/11https://rationalground.com/why-mass-pcr-testing-of-the-healthy-and-asymptomatic-is-currently-counter-productive/ The problem is that current

Adam Housley

adamhousley

1/3. Proving my argument since day 1...great piece in the Sacramento Bee. Highlights: County of Sac. received $181 million in federal dollars to combat the pandemic. $104 million went to

draglikepull

draglikepull

Progressives generally favour universal access to progams, like eliminating tuition, but neoliberals say we should means-test those programs, otherwise we're giving free things to rich people who don't need them.

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

This recommendation from @CDCgov, coupled with the rationale given, beggars belief. This is thinest of absence-of-evidence arguments. Imagine what would have to be true of young adults for re-entry testing

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Have to marvel at the complete incompetence of the UK government, and the dangerous approach to managing COVID-19. Essentially while saying that it isn't sensible to lift lockdown, because they

Sam Freedman

Samfr

The weird thing is that since the lockdown started the Govt has done broadly the right things - good economic package; put in place testing capacity; building tracing capacity; maintaining