#Tests

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

Cuomo gets a lot more coverage because the national media is based in New York and his brother is on CNN, but CA has contained coronavirus much better than NY,

First Away Test century for Rohit

Shruti1845

Can India outplay the Black caps in English conditions ? (A THREAD)Based on :● Past performances in England ● Record against the Kiwis● Recent form in the WTC ■ Rohit

Rod Johnson

SheepDuster

First the good news: Hydrochloroquine trial starts to test efficacy against SARS-2-cov. Should be complete by summer. Now the bad news: The placebo for the trial is vitamin C pills.

Health Nerd

GidMK

People have been asking me to debunk this thread "proving" that COVID-19 deaths are false positives by correlating things, but instead I thought I'd simply list a few things that

Sara Chang

ChangSara

Let’s talk about #COVID19 plateaus. Lebanon’s test positivity, # tests conducted, & # new cases have largely stabilized. It could mean cases & spread are plateauing, but it can also

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Thread: On costs $$ of at-home Rapid TestsThe US government earmarked 10's of billions of dollars for testing. This was a great move!But why isn't this money being used to

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ One point people miss about #Covid:There are super-spreader events.There are also super-TESTER events.What do I mean?Many people infected with #Sars-Cov-2 never have any symptoms at all. The commonly used

Yvonne Bailey 🪐

realYDB

The @MayorOfLA LIED to his constituents. He knew that the COVID-19 death rate in LA was not 4.3% and yet he put it out anyway to stoke fear. In today's

Jed

TheJedReport

Wow, Georgia’s playing some sick games with data. https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-reportThey have a guide to help you “Understand the Data” but that almost makes it worse because they admit their numbers are

Mike Crawley

CBCQueensPark

BREAKING: The number of #COVID19 tests Ontario completes daily is actually *dropping* steadily over the past week. The targets were 5,000/day by late March and 19,000/day by 3rd week of

Neelanjan Sircar

NeelanjanSircar

As you extend testing you should move from riskiest populations to less risky (due to more tests). But if you chase hotspots & wait until things are bad to test,

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Number one comment of concern I receive about why we can't deploy rapid daily #COVID19 tests that test for people with likely transmissible virus: "We can't do this yet because

Manish Bhatt

mkb_tweet

How India fares against US in number of covid-19 cases, testing, mortality rateUSA has conducted more than 15 million tests, President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed on Twitter, adding that

Alicia Smith

Alicia_Smith19

Important article on testing from the NYT: According to public health experts, "standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Kyle Lamb

kylamb8

I'm writing a deeper dive but here is the shocking number that should be headline news: 97.9%97.9% decrease of confirmed flu cases to WHO FluNet/GISRS from weeks 15 through 40

Scott Billeck

ScottBilleck

MANITOBA COVID-19 UPDATE SEPT. 24:- 37 new cases - 1,711 total- 450 active cases- 19 deaths (3-M 70s, 3-M 80s, 2-M 60s, 4-W 90s, 3-W 80s, 2-W 60s, M 90s,