#Testing

Few people realise the importance of testing figures to interpret numbers of confirmed cases.Even fewer people realise just how poorly these figures are being collated and reported. @PietroMonticone gets both
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These absolute morons.https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1263999634575417345 *Even if you want to "win" an arms race or "win" a nuclear war (whatever that means)*, you shouldn't want to kick the nontesting norm o
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Public Health England—in response to The Sun—have confirmed by omission that they:1. Rebuffed help from commercial labs;2. Did not pursue a mass testing strategy. 3. Are too incompetent to be
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@Adamprice @Plaid_Cymru please read these comments from English Biomedical Scientists in regards to the mega labs that you want to mimic in Wales.https://twitter.com/gayatrichohan/status/1253008645144616960 These are hardworking, dedicated, professio
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FRIDAY #COVID19Colorado updateHeadline: Testing back up (good), positivity flat (good), hospitalizations flat (good) HOSPITALIZATIONS: COVID+ onlyToday: 142 (+1 from yesterday)Last week: 132(PUI & COVID+ = 232 -- DOWN 8 from
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I spoke with the director of TGen North in Flagstaff, AZ last Thursday about #COVID19 PCR testing and cycle threshold. @justin_hart @Hold2LLC @AzWarren @AlexBerenson It was a great conversation. He
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Allegheny County Council meets now. It is set to vote on a bill that would mandate universal testing for COVID-19 at the county jail and four Kane nursing homes, as
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CORONAVIRUS #LOCKDOWN ?Thread #Lockingdown the entire population by assuming that anyone could be carrying the virus is impractical, the most pragmatic approach would be a more nuanced and data-driven approach
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I see a lot of people looking at the Tokyo Govt website and concluding "Tokyo is only testing 300 people a day or "1/3 to 2/3 of people in Tokyo
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For months, there has been argument about testing data globally (it's not consistent) and this is also an issue with deaths data too. Some like France and Belgium include non-hospital
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As @JPSoucy points out in this excellent , we have a experienced a considerable drop in testing. The question we don't know is: how many should we be testing? @skepticalIDdoc
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1. Thread about my 2-year-old, COVID testing, and why it's so important that rapid testing is expanded and made widely available, rather than being concentrated on high-risk populations.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/trump-cor
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I do not use any epidemiological model, I test this growth with different forecast models using the past long series. Thus I make predictions for 3 to 4 weeks with
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COVID-19 Nepal Situation Analysis (Thread)Most common question is- where we headed to?With Test Positivity above 30% ( 7 days avg) and Reproduction rate above 2, and very weak control measures,
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okay, hanggang ngayon, di nyo parin ba nakikita yung mali. let me elaborate how incompetent our government is.first, no impose of travel ban, the main reason why we're in this
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Was talking to my cousin.. Who is a doctor. Asked him about "Not many testing done.. " theoryHe said.. It doesn't matter.. If you were positive..chances are you may be
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