#Testing

After seeing an alarming amount of anti-mask & pseudoscience posts from folks in my hometown, I announced an #AMA on my fbook to answer questions about #SARS_CoV_2 & #COVID19. Disclaimed
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I like @ianbirrell and I admire his campaigning journalism. I disagree with him about foreign aid, which he does not support. But his article today contains a claim about @DFID_UK
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I'm a college prof but I took some online courses **as a student** during the pandemic. Here's a thread about 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 because I don't think other profs k
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I was privileged to speak with several public health people in the frontline today. Like ITU staff, other hospital and primary health care workers, they are working all hours to
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OMG memories - Gravesend High Street in 1990 Chatham High Street in 1990 Rochester High Street in 1990 Sainsburys at The Pentagon in 1991 - barely remember this one! OMG
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Every set of Coronavirus regulations opens with a statement that they are a proportionate “response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence
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Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked ~4.16 million tests, up 152k from yesterday, a bit over the April average. The testing plateau continues.Note that we can only track
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Quick Thread on Fertility and here I explain the why. Fertility fraud is deeply problematic and can also be considered sexual assault. A patient comes to a doctor for help
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Privilege to be able to volunteer for the Cardiff & Vale NHS trust @CV_UHB The first three days have been busy and am witnessing first hand another level of work
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These tricks will definitely BOOST your IELTS scores. 1. Forget everything you think you know about the English language. The International English Language Testing Scheme— IELTS is set to test
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My hot take on Singapore vs. Hong Kong COVID responses is that in Hong Kong we cancelled school and we wear masks whereas in Singapore mask-wearing did not become de
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The notion of "steelmanning" or criticizing the "strongest version" of something you disagree with seems harder to pin down that I used to think. So often a critic's strongest version
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Many people in UK Public Health are doing a brilliant job manning 111 lines and giving excellent advice and triage. So too are our local authority teams. Front-liners taught me
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We @latimes reported on the ground March 17 when Guatemala became the first country to refuse deportation flights from the US amid fears the Trump administration could export coronavirus to
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TESTING to see if I'm still suspended by Twitter... Ahhh, looks like I'm back. THAT was quick. And stoopid. So, a few weeks ago, some idiotic trump troll was getting
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Leaked recordings of a Home Office conference call on Tuesday reveal that the Government has all but given up in its fight against the Coronavirus and is intent on simply
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