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Mira Mira on the wall
ShoutsAndMiras
I’m sorry but the criteria to get a test is BS. Let’s discuss:1) Anyone with a travel history outside Nigeria, who presents with a fever, cough or breathing difficulties within
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Jessica Briggs
jessikator
Our paper on sex-based differences in the clearance of asymptomatic P falciparum infection is out!! We found that females cleared these infections ~2x faster than males in our cohort in
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
A resident of rural Snohomish County, "Jean" had COVID-like symptoms in late Dec 2019 and has subsequently tested positive in a serological assay. This may have been COVID-19 infection, but
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Ben Collins
oneunderscore__
Write off the sheer prevalence of the Qanon cult at your own risk.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3u9TJao1Co I've been covering Qanon for a year, and the amount of pro-Q people in this video from
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AL 🙂
Metabo_PhD
1/ How do you know that the pro-lockdown+face mask crowd are losing the war & getting increasingly desperate? They’re now using identity politics instead of #science in their arguments. Let
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Jason L. Salemi, PhD ☕
JasonSalemi
An epidemiologist's primer to DIAGNOSTIC TESTING- sensitivity & specificity- positive and negative predictive values- likelihood ratios- pre- and post-test probabilitiesSound familiar?Sound really confusing?In this I'll try to t
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Mugwump
anonmugwump
I’m not sure I agree with this framing for several reasons: (1) “random people on Twitter” encompasses all manner of maniacs, the “upper normies” who initially downplayed it and is
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Adam Langleben
adamlangleben
The thing about antisemitism is that it is built into the DNA to western civilisation. Both for Jews and non-Jews alike. However well meaning the person, it sometimes it comes
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Zachary Binney
zbinney_NFLinj
The FDA has approved the first antibody test for COVID-19, from Cellex. It theoretically tells you if you've had it & are, as far as we know, immune for some
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Anup Malani
anup_malani
PRACTICAL Q ABOUT POOLING RT-PCR TESTS: Are there papers showing if/how sensitivity of antigen test fall if you pool more samples? Most papers we found examine statistical properties of pooling,
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el gato malo
boriquagato
covid panics have become as regular & predictable as moon phases or cicadasas we're coming back into the "mistaking more testing for more cases" part of the cycle, let's see
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Dr Kat (your friendly local epidemiologist)
epi_punk
People are starting to talk about "testing everybody" for COVID as an elimination strategy. I've got bad news for those people, I'm afraid. As far as I know, we have
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Peter Antevy
HandtevyMD
North American PICU data gives insight into how children have been affected by #COVID19. The data comes from https://www.myvps.org/ and is voluntary data from 160 pediatric ICUs. Age distribution shows
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Tim Harford
TimHarford
THREAD1/"When the facts change, I change my opinions. What do you do? - Attributed (without evidence) to John Maynard Keynes, hero of "How To Make The World Add Up" ch
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John Roberts
john_actuary
The interim report of Round 6 of @imperialcollege's #REACT study makes grim reading. It estimates 96,000 new infections a day, with an R of 1.56, and doubling every 9 days.
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Will Fithian
wfithian
I have been corresponding with the authors of the well-known Santa Clara County COVID-19 preprint, and I am alarmed at their sloppy behavior. The confidence interval calculation in their preprint
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