#Testing

Lauren Sommer

lesommer

In early February, the CDC picked 6 U.S. cities to find the coronavirus before it spread. They were “sentinel” cities. But it took a month or more to getting going,

Dr. Ayub Ashar

AsharShaik447

Pool testing could help us overcome the deficit of test kits and may help us boost community testing to reveal hidden cases.. kindly look into it @ShashiTharoor @narendramodi @PMOIndia @drharshvardhan

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I feel like Sisyphus right after he loses his grip on the boulder. People are finally coming around the realization that high-volume screening of asymptomatic people is a powerful tool

University of Michigan

UMich

We all play an important role in keeping each other safe from #COVID19. @UMichStudents choosing to return home are advised to take important preventive measures to protect their home communities.

James Wilson

jamewils

I just made a comparison of confirmed cases, tests done, % of confirmed cases wrt tests done & tests done per million of population between 4 major South States and

Dan Diekema

dan_diekema

Big challenge to learn performance (sens/spec) of various #COVID19 tests, which vary by test method, by site tested (NP, OP, sputum, trach aspirate/BAL) and perhaps most importantly by day from

Alan Hynes

hynesalan

We all knew that reopening schools would be a challenge and keeping them open an even bigger one. For this to have any chance of working, the State should have

Patrick Kessler

PatKessler

MN Latest Covid-19 NumbersDeaths: 179Confirmed cases: 2,721Hospitalized: 240ICU: 107No longer isolated: 1,317Total tests: 49,344 Gov Walz says MN will sharply ramp up testing for all symptomatic people, isolate confirmed cases,

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BLOODY HELL—Trump’s CMS is now changing #COVID19 positivity ratings & muzzling bad numbers. How? If a rural county has

Maha Rehman

MahaRehman1

Tests for CVID19 per 1000 people are steadily increasing in Pakistan. Invest in local, cheaper R&D, group testing using LHW as suggested in the thread linked below https://twitter.com/MahaRehman1/status/1248572000043401217 Globally, this

Dr Charles Omole

DrCOmole

Honesty is needed in this debate. The Nigerian govt cannot afford d palliatives needed to mitigate a lockdown. D money is not there. This lockdown should not be extended as

indira 💤

rowthless

Found some interesting news here.The rightest way to count how bad is the pandemic is not by the positive case, but the death case. Assuming 1% of the infected people

Stop the Steal - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

(1 of 7) Some 80 percent of the masks the Czech Republic purchased from China for around $600,000 are defective. Chinese rapid-testing kits sold to Spain had only 30 percent

Patrick Battaglia

patrickbattagl2

Jude Miller @LoganUniversity getting ready to present on diagnostic testing @ triage to student interns. #chiropractic #leadersmade Outline to a broad topic: What does triage mean to a chiropractic physician?-ID

Jonathan Rauch

jon_rauch

Week 6 of Covid-19 crisis: one citizen's assessment of where we stand. Spoiler: what needs to be happening isn't happening, and the president isn't even talking about it. We need

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ There seems to be some confusion about QUARANTINE versus ISOLATION. Here's an infectious disease epidemiology 101: 2/ QUARANTINE refers to people who have been EXPOSED and may or may