#Testing

Since I write about it everyday here's a thread about how dismal our testing is in #Telangana. Its a long thread, bear with it.We have conducted 19k tests done TILL
Read more
Oscar: Doc, what's ahead?Me: An even bigger surge of COVID-19 pts arriving at hospitals. Oscar: Sounds awful. Could a lot of people die? Me: Yes, Oscar. Sorry to say it.
Read more
Trump announces “hold” on money going to "China centric" WHO: “They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier...they should have known. And they probably did know.” This
Read more
Can’t say I understand a state not allowing a team to play/practice with modifications at this point with the testing being done. It seems hard for me to believe that
Read more
All proposed plans for reopening, incl ours, rely on testing + contact tracing. The US is at ~ 1M tests/wk. @ashishkjha thinks we need 3.5M/wk minimum. Others wants several times
Read more
1/So, do we expect the states to be on their own to fightan invading army?a surge at the border? cyber attacks from hostile nation states?a serial killer who crosses state
Read more
IMPORTANT: TESTING IS THE KEY TO #LOCKDOWN21 AND INDIA IS FAILING TERRIBLY.People are currently being tested: - International Travel History with Symptoms.- Related people + close contacts of positive cases-
Read more
1st in-person @UWSystem Board of Regents meeting since February, I think. Regent President @drewpetersenwi & @RayWCross exchanged an elbow bump but I was not quick enough to take a screenshot.
Read more
[thread] on testshttps://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-the-target-was-for-100000-tests-a-day-to-be-carried-out-not-capacity-to-do-100000-tests Matt Hancock 2nd April 2020"I am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end
Read more
"I want the hotel rooms open," @mayoroflasvegas declares on CNN.Sports?"I'd love everything open....we've had viruses here for years."Here we go again.... Conventions?"Absolutely. I want everything back."@anderso
Read more
"Biden & Obama stopped their testing ... I'm sure you don't want to report it" - Trump absurdly tries to blame Obama for problems w/ testing for Covid-19, which didn't
Read more
How can GPs help ensure #covid19 #antibody tests are used wisely? 100,000 (or is it 200,000?) tests a day is only useful if we get the right test, for the
Read more
Fundamental, basic, deadly error in Atlas press conference: "The purpose of testing is to stop people from dying, from getting a serious illness." This is SO WRONG. In an epidemic,
Read more
https://soulmates.theguardian.com/blog/news/guardian-soulmates-is-coming-to-an-end As an aside, back in the late 2000's I did some design work on Guardian Soulmates and we took it to user-testing to see how it worked with users
Read more
I have some concern that MB isn't adapting their COVID-19 testing strategy as new data comes in. Maybe @bkives or @ScottBilleck can ask about this. Priority is given to syptomatic
Read more
Happy to see ICMR's just released paper on SARI testing. http://www.ijmr.org.in/temp/IndianJMedRes000-2449198_064811.pdf Some highlights: since February 15th, India tested 5911 SARI cases. Out of these, 965 were retrospectively tested (1) We
Read more