#TestAndTrace

Philippe Lemoine

Here's a back-of-the-envelope calculation to show it's not a purely theoretical concern. Today there was ~25k new cases in the US. If you only detect 1/10, the real # is

Noah Smith 🐇

1/Tweets from the Experts, 4/23/2020 2/How do epidemiologists figure out what R0 is?A presentation:https://twitter.com/rozeggo/status/1253440740526632960 3/Remember, even after a vaccine arrives, it will take years to stamp out this virus.https://twi

Noah Smith 🐇

Some good news. U.S. testing rose today, to 139,613 tests/day. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oVRrHj3c183mHmq3m89_163yuYltLNlOmPerQ18E8w/htmlview# The daily positive test ratio has generally been trending up, which is bad, because it indica

Noah Smith 🐇

Fauci is correct. Reopening is an "if", not a "when". We can't reopen until we get #TestAndTrace systems in place.https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1250107485731655680 If you reopen the economy without A) low case gro

Philippe Lemoine

So far we've been trying to figure out the proportion of the population that had already been infected, hence the focus on serological studies, but do we have good estimates

Medatest our modest PPE company have a huge announcement. We are going to have the rights to commercialise the world's best antigen rapid test. It is, to use an oft-abused

Noah Smith 🐇

I bet that most places can reduce caseloads to manageable levels and implement #TestAndTrace by May 15. So if I had to bet on when shutdowns can start being lifted,

I vowed to RT this every day an American dies from the #COVID19 4 wks ago: 49 deaths3 wks ago: 249 deaths2 wks ago: 1,588 deaths1 wk ago: 7,152 deaths4/11:

CarolineJMolloy

carolinejmolloy

This week the government duped us.It spun that its failed national contact tracing scheme was transforming into a proper local system.& the media bought the spin. Save this thread, so

World-beating #TestandTrace @MattHancock @BorisJohnson? A thread.Visiting family for the long holiday weekend, 1 of the smalls had a sniffle & headache so decided to get a test. Tuesday: apply for

Siobhan Talbott

This is a ranty thread about my covid testing experience #testingshambles #worldbeating 1/10 Overnight on Thursday both kids came down with something. By Friday morning, high temps (>40

Dakini Darkstar

#COVID19 #coronavirus #COVIDー19 #COVID2019 #nCoV2019 #2019nCoV #TestAndTrace #TestTraceIsolate https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1250855521327788032 Fantastic thread answering many questions about early #COVID19 infection in the U.S. #COVIDー19 #2019n

Based on county-level data from @nytimes, I put together animations showing the growth and spread of #COVIDー19 cases in March. Early on, cases were limited to a few areas, but

Cirian75 #YNWA 62.5% 🇬🇧 25% 🇳🇱 12.5% 🇦🇺

Republic Of Ireland CV19 T&T app cost less than €1mGave it for free toScotland, NI & Gibraltar.And in the USNew York State & Delaware, other US states looking at itGermany

#DigitalHealth Futurist 👨‍💻

Looks like the #NHS #TestAndTrace #contactTracing app is finally here. Why did it take them so long? It's of less utility to me right now given my #longcovid has me

Dr. Theresa Tam

1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in : Today, in lieu of a daily in-person update to the media, I have issued a Monday statement you can read in full here: