#Testing

Motor City Muckraker

MCmuckraker

Michigan @GovWhitmer at press conference says the state is "still a good month" away from reaching the peak in coronavirus cases. "We are in for a tough four, five, six

Dr. Swapneil Parikh

swapneilparikh

This is why we need to scale up testing: “On average only 6% of actual SARS-CoV-2 infections detected worldwide”https://bit.ly/2RpTaoY Some ideas on scaling testing in this thread:https://twitter.com/swapneilparikh/status/1246871194478895104?s=

Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎

suilee

1. Wuhan is calling its mass testing drive a "10-day battle." @vwang3 and I take a closer look at the government's plans to test 11 million residents. The numbers are

Bruce Feldman

BruceFeldmanCFB

SOURCE: Big Ten coaches are meeting on a call right now. Am told "it's a real possibility" that the Big Ten may try to reverse course and play later this

Otto Von Biz Markie

Passionweiss

An update on the nightmarish situation that Greedo is currently facing:Due to Covid, 03 hasn't been allowed to use the phone or contact the outside world for over a monthMeanwhile,

Dan Andrews

DanielAndrewsMP

Briefed the media earlier today on a major expansion of our coronavirus testing program – but I wanted to explain it to you directly.We've already tested more than 100,000 Victorians

Chris Burnor

chrisburnor

This seems pretty significant.https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1252817269740072963 First, it means that COVID-19 was likely circulating in CA as early as mid-January (and suggests that it was circulating even earlier than that). Secondly, it

Craig

TheLawyerCraig

*THREAD*No, Texas's (true) percentage of people testing positive for #COVID19 has not shot up.No, Texas's Covid-19 testing has not dropped off a cliff.#Texas's reporting is screwed up based on how

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Don't get tested on a Friday or Saturday. Here are the percentage of positive tests in Scotland. There's a weekly cycle. You're twice as likely to test positive on a

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

Hello to those claiming that #Covid19 has an infection fatality rate of 0.1%, like the "common flu" and we can relax about it...Will you stop when countries have seen so

Duke-Margolis

DukeMargolis

@DukeMargolis director Dr. Mark McClellan along with @ScottGottliebMD @cmyeaton @LaurenRSilvis and @Farzad_MD lay out what is needed for a national #COVID19 surveillance system along the #RoadmaptoReopenhttps://healthpolicy.duke.edu/sites/default/fil

Katie 👾 Moussouris (she/her)

k8em0

Hearing a lot of “SBOM is key in things like this #log4j issue” without anyone saying how they might use an SBOM *right now* during this phase of response.Please don’t

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

What are the benefits/limitations of mass testing certain populations for SARS-CoV-2 regardless of symptoms? A thread... 1/ SARS-CoV-2 can transmit before symptoms appear, so by the time a symptomatic case

Tim Mak

timkmak

Quest Diagnostics is furloughing employees, cutting pay, dismissing temporary workers, freezing hiring, cutting OT (Reuters)Despite performing 40% of US COVID-19 tests, social distancing is destroying Quest's bread and butter: the

InTheLightOfData

InTheLightOfDa3

Deaths toll is more solid target of analysis but it's too extreme to say no. of confirmed cases is useless.You can check the trend of increase at least.(but noisy i

Old Man River

iwriteasiwrite

Trends in other countries (WITH MASS TESTING) show slowing at around the three week mark. Anecdotally, I guess we can assume the same. But, we can't.Because. Testing.(We sort of have