#Tests

Matthew Carlson

mcarlson_sb

Sometimes when I'm working with people the smallness of the steps I take frustrates themThey can *see* where to goThey could just *do it*But, not without breaking functionalities, breaking tests,

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Back in JULY, Anthony Fauci said positive tests at PCR cycles over 35 did not show “replication competent” - a fancy phrase for “live!” - virus, only “dead nucleotides.”

InTheLightOfData

InTheLightOfDa3

Deaths toll is more solid target of analysis but it's too extreme to say no. of confirmed cases is useless.You can check the trend of increase at least.(but noisy i

Beejay

Bolaji_Olawoyin

1. On Nigeria's testing capacity, the Coordinator, Taskforce has this to say "Our newly-opened laboratories in the country are currently underutilized.... Part of the reason why we have not proceeded

Dalila

DalilaAtiqah

What does it mean by #sensitivity vs #sensitivity? what are false positive rate and false negatives? How are they calculated? Here's a simple explanation [Thread] #medtwitter #tweetorial SENSITIVITY aka true

Fiona // BLACK LIVES MATTER

Fiona_Butchart

Imagine if you went to the doctors feeling very unwell, in horrific pain and crying uncontrollably. And they told you you were crazy and sent you home.Sounds archaic, doesn't it?

Andy Davies

adavies4

Interesting. Latest @PublicHealthW data shows 1005 #COVID19 tests carried out in Wales on 10th April. My understanding is they have daily capacity to test more (as @WelshGovernment repeatedly said they’d

Maj Rajpreet Singh Aulakh

rajpreetaulakh

@narendramodi @MoHFW_INDIA@drharshvardhan @TarekFatah@IndiaKaPrahari @Tiny_DhillonA thread on why #ChinaVirus testing is less in India.Where the world is commending India for it's tackling of Corona, there are a few condemning India ,

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Whether or not you think local lockdowns work (& the evidence so far is ... not great), given the huge costs they impose, they should only be considered when there

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Press briefing today- data clearly shows that the UK has essentially followed the Italy curve almost exactly. Germany shows an early plateau & is moving the S. Korea way. What

Seyi Makinde

seyiamakinde

Today, we started the drive/walk-through testing initiative for COVID-19 to test 2,000 people at Adamasingba Stadium, Ibadan. The test kits were donated by the Citizen for Citizen Initiative and the

Dawn Lanuza

otherdawn

Filipinos are suffering because of an incompetent and negligent government. They have been issuing quarantines without a clear plan. Hospitals are full and medical frontliners are all seeking for a

David Buck

davidjbuck

THREAD > 1/7. Important hearing of @CommonsSTC today. 75 minutes with @PHE_uk on understanding why testing, contract, trace policy turned off in March - which has set us largely on

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

Testing 10 lakh people each day will cost approx.100-120 crore rupees. Each day of even a partial lockdown costs India >20000 crore. Testing a million people will be 10 times

Jason Huggins ☣️

hugs

You know the best way to nerd snipe a tester? Say "Test fails for an unknown reason." Context: I've been poking around the LibrePCB issues, looking for something I could

Erin Kissane

kissane

So! Pregnancy tests are a fine way to explain *some* things about covid testing or testing for infectious disease in general, but are a really-not-great way to talk about other