#Tests

Jeff Passan

JeffPassan

The Washington Nationals canceled workouts today as results from their Friday coronavirus tests still have not shown up, sources tell ESPN.Comes on the heels of the Oakland A's canceling a

Department of Health and Social Care

DHSCgovuk

UPDATE on coronavirus (#COVID19) testing in the UK:As of 9am 3 April, a total of 173,784 people have been tested of which 38,168 tested positive.As of 5pm on 2 April,

Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR)

ptrmadurai

Maybe it's a generational thing. Or perhaps our expectations vary as a function of our respective careers (International private sector vs Indian Public Sector). But for me, the quality of

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I feel like Sisyphus right after he loses his grip on the boulder. People are finally coming around the realization that high-volume screening of asymptomatic people is a powerful tool

Ashley

misstwink

Prince George’s County Executive @CEXAlsobrooks live press conference...signed an executive order to extend the Stay at home for the county until June 1. Hospitals in the county are 40% over

Kirk Rudell

krudell

WHERE ARE THE TESTS?On March 13, Trump gathered CEOs in the Rose Garden to thank their Great Companies for mobilizing to provide testing. You know all those drive through parking

Vathany

KVathany

#COVID19 Serology (aka. #antibody) testing is a popular topic. Here is a tweetatorial on where things stand today in Ontario. As @UHN’s Deputy Division Head for Biochemistry, test validation and

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

An alternative, more effective and sustainable way to link contact tracing to primary care. (1) In England there are 7435 practices with 54,000 GPs. If we have 5000 COVID19 patients

Cinderella Man

Osi_Suave

Let me try to break down the concept of pooled testing Pooled testing is a procedure commonly used to reduce the cost of screening a large number of individuals

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

There is a dangerous recommendation being made by someone to only isolate students, staff and teachers that are close contacts of an infected person if they test positive for the

ANI

ANI

In Gujarat, particularly Ahmedabad, pvt doctors in non-COVID hospitals get many patients with COVID-19 symptoms. Gujarat govt has no policy to test who we feel might be infected: Dr Vasant

Coronavirus Plushie

SmashingPumpk18

This is a concise, easy to understand explanation of the problems there are with the PCR Test for #Coronavirus Based on this article:https://bit.ly/2XLrazf From this video:https://youtu.be/TGuYHad6RUg #COVID19 #lockdownMelbourne #

scott cunningham

causalinf

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

Paul Romer

paulmromer

BottlenecksThe more I look into this, the more cases I see where the short-run scarcities and bottlenecks are the result of an FDA approval process for tests that is very

Lexi Alexander الكسندرا ميراي

Lexialex

I’m glad you tweeted that and I thank you for your honesty. All of this, including our disregard of the methods so many Asian countries used to get rid of

RepAndyKim

RepAndyKimNJ

Okay, we know this is wrong. I’ve said that before. But since he keeps saying this, let’s dig into why it’s wrong and what it means. (thread)https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1283183152047980545 First, let’s look