#Tests

el gato malo

boriquagato

let's say it one more time:"discussing case counts without reference to testing levels is tantamount to lying."let's look at just how much difference it makes.i plotted raw "new positives reported

'Fisayo Soyombo

fisayosoyombo

Last week in Lagos, a septuagenarian tested positive for COVID-19. She got the virus in a strange way.Although this woman and her family had strictly obeyed a leg of the

el gato malo

boriquagato

anyone still presuming that a + PCR test is showing a covid case needs to read this v carefully:even 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of "positives" are not "cases." virus

Bex Esq.

WombleBexy

Thread. Given that interpretations of last night’s Johnson announcement* abound today, here’s mine.*less announcement more stream of consciousness If you can’t work from home, go back to work. But if

Howie Hua

howie_hua

Today, I told my students "Here's how I'm going to grade your tests: I look at it, tell you what to fix, you fix it, and I'll give you an

Keith Humphreys

KeithNHumphreys

Most of my great public health colleagues are greatly over-estimating the likelihood that the U.S. can mount a national test, trace, and isolate program as have countries like Germany and

Ryan Wain

ryan_wain

Lockdown lifts when we're confident we can contain Covid. This can only be achieved through mass test and trace. What does this look like in practice and how far is

Sterling Haring

SterlingHaring

I’m commonly asked “Why don’t we just test everyone for #COVID2019 ?”I’ll explain below in this #epitwitter #medtwitter #tweetorial #thread – Please share/RT to help spread real understanding in the

MMU UCU

manmetucu

The university “will not necessarily” inform lecturers if a student tests positive in their class. This is because apparently 2 metres over a 3 hour session in classrooms in which

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

The Telegraph

Telegraph

Hi. I'm @Ashley_J_Kirk, senior data journalist at The @Telegraph. We've had some questions about #COVID19 data from our readers, which I've done my best to answer. Watch the videos

Divia Eden

diviacaroline

Evidence against tons of people being fully asymptomatic includes:-diamond cruise ship-Singapore, including the completeness of early contact tracing-S Korean data-analysis based on mutation speed-the WHO report-the shit show that is

Jo Anne Roberts

HelenaofTroy60

Its beginning to look as tho, @realDonaldTrump is PURPOSELY & NOW FORCIBLY, setting the Governors states up for failure. Did he KNOW, the ventalators Russia sent us, wouldnt save lives?

Dikembe

DikembeDudes

Several weeks ago I was diagnosed with Covid-19, this has been my experience so far. It was pretty damn scary and I didn’t wanna talk about it for a bit.

Sriram

SriramMadras

1. How do you make people believe that they won’t die of corona?2. How do you make people believe that they can resume work, after lockdown when there is no

Emma Woodhouse 😁

EWoodhouse7

Adding on to and clarifying the University of Illinois testing program: Since the advent of their testing efforts, the University has made several changes to how it calculates % pos