#Infected

1/7 Lots of folks trying to understand sensitivity and specificity. Maybe the most important concept to understand right now is that of POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE.Given a test result is positive,
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Reading the transcript of Whitty/Vallance lecture yesterday. I quote: “so about eight per cent, so 3 million or so people, may have been infected and have antibodies. It means that
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Thread. Will explain from first principles how China put itself in a good position to come out of lockdown, why it will be harder for the West and the broad
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Wonder why #FakeNewsMedia #FakeNews doesn’t talk about this comparison as #America #economy is #shutdown #Flu Update: As of April 2020#USA 45 million infected300,000 hospitalizations46,000 deaths from flu#COVID19365,067 infected13,799 dead..#Wednesda
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This study tested how rhinovirus transmits. Briefly, ppl infected w/ rhinovirus played cards for 12 hours w/ uninfected ppl. Some of the uninfected were stopped from touching face. Rate of
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VACCINE EFFICACY 101: A biostatistician's primerTen tweets to cover:- How is vaccine efficacy calculated?- Distinguishing between infection, disease, & severe disease.- Measuring reduced infectiousness.- Vaccine efficacy vs. effecti
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1) A lot of people see cases rising while deaths are going down in the US. Somebody who did not like my tweet earlier about the record cases today just
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Second Wave of #Covid_19Now there’s a greater chance of survival for those getting infected 6 months later than those who got infected 6 months earlier. The reason for this is
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I don't know if anyone following me is a medical researcher working on COVID, or knows someone in that category, but just in case, I had a crazy thought I
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“On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s, a private hospital in Durban, South Africa.”
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There's at least one headline every day that's a head scratcher and today it is "Third wave of pandemic to attack children more." I don't know how any sensible person
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936 new cases (+5.6%)17,607 total cases25 new deaths, bringing the total to 794(28 new, less 3 deaths denotified).I'm not worried about the jump in new cases. I'll explain.1/https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1253021827988930564 Ireland
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I had been struggling for a while to get my head around the argument, made by @BillHanage, @NateSilver538 and others on this website today, that antibody test results from places
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1. Reopening schools in the middle of a raging pandemic may destroy the US economy resulting in widespread civil strife. Putin knows that and that's why @POTUS Trump is demanding
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My eldest daughter is separated from her husband. Nothing unusual these days, marriages break down and that's a fact. On Wednesday, my ex son in law had to go into
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Thread: #cummings talks about “rules”. There is law & guidance. The law, at that time, prohibited leaving the place where you live without reasonable excuse. (Reg 6(1)) Nothing in law
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