#Testing

Dr David Robert Grimes

drg1985

One thing that sometimes get lost in COVID stats: incidence is a function of confirmed cases per unit population. But it's related to testing rate, & population tested. It's not

Lamar Richards

lamarrichards_

Thread/ UNC Spring 2021 Updates:- Every student that received the internet supplement (aka extra money for internet) will automatically receive it again UNLESS they are now planning to live on

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

A lot has been made of the costs of large-scale testing, and the tens of billions required is often actually stated as the main reason to not do it.However, this

Byron York

ByronYork

In last three impeachments, it has been common for Democrats, media, culturati to threaten Republicans with revenge and long-lasting recriminations. 1/6 In Bill Clinton impeachment, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz famously

Cathy Risdon

risdonc

Dangerous distractions? - a view from primary care about @fordnation Ontario's COVID19 latest testing strategy. A thread ... At the onset of COVID-19 in Ontario, testing strategies had to contend

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Why is testing breaking down again? Of course where cases are rising, demand is also rising. More people are symptomatic and more people have been exposed. The result is discouraging

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

1/ I am *still* seeing people claim that the PCR test has a 93% false positive rate. This has been debunked many times but let me have one more go...

Patrick Neeman

usabilitycounts

One of the things that designers should avoid doing is creating designs with Lorem Ipsum i.e. placeholder text.Here's why. 1) Designers need to understand the context.Without "real" data in there,

Movement for Family Power

movfamilypower

NYC Health & Hospital Corporation released a policy requiring informed consent before testing pregnant people. However, the policy still allows testing of newborns without parental consent, an equally harmful practice

Meelz 💪🏾

MeelzTV

So here's my piece about the WWE/COVID outbreak:Hold the local government accountable for immediately re-opening the areas and allowing professional wrestling to be essential. WWE is just doing what all

Bailey McLynn

BaileyMclynn

Your trusted news sources prove my points: A THREAD. Let’s compare our testing to countries with a similar population. Like Indonesia and Brazil who don’t have a shocking number of

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

The positive rate for community testing and hospital testing reached a low and then turned an increased *simultaneously* at the beginning of December. It doesn't look like a big deal

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

I believe that Boris Johnson's "moonshot" testing pie in the sky idea, has arisen from the same thinking from which the "herd immunity" idea arose.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/what-is-no-10s-moonshot

SlacktivistFred’s 1611 Project

SlacktivistFred

The biggest reason to avoid means-testing for COVID relief (among other things) isn't that it's more efficient, which it is, or that it avoids the likelihood of denying aid to

Governor Larry Hogan

GovLarryHogan

Maryland is reporting 3,792 new cases of #COVID19—an all-time high. While we’re also reporting a record volume of tests reported (nearly 56,000), our positivity rate is 8%—its highest since early

Peter Apps

PeteApps

But then it changed the chemical composition of the product in 2006 and retested. This time the result - in the words of a Kingspan employee - was "a raging

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