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Susanna Dunachie
Susannajd
People ask me a lot what I think about "mix and match" approaches for COVID vaccines. We are all excitedly awaiting the ComCov Study, but I'm full of enthusiasm for
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Women's Health Plus
WomensHealthPl1
HOW IS YOUR BLOOD GROUP AND RHESUS STATUS IMPORTANT IN PREGNANCY? (PART 2)There are times a mother is rhesus negative and the baby is rhesus positive. This is called rhesus
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Paul Nolan
pnolan99
Interesting to see a member of your family subject to a twitter pile-on.The following are personal thoughts and opinions.Philip has worked for over 14 months, putting in savage hours, in
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Robert Peston
Peston
Sources in the fledgling#COVID19 testing industry tell me that it is not surprising Public Health England’s’s antigen test may not have been as reliable as would have been desired. One
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Dillon Richards
KOCODillon
NEW: Oklahoma reports 1,164 new coronavirus cases, bringing the 7-day average to a record high of more the 1,100 daily cases. The dizzying spike in cases comes amid a sudden
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
Still so much confusion about rapid antigen tests. They get compared to qPCR and bc qPCR is deemed the gold standard, they appear as “low sensitivity”To be clear, the problem
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Dr. Tom Frieden
DrTomFrieden
Epi Weekly Review: No Fairy-Tale Ending to The Covid PandemicLess testing, less information on tests, apparently less Covid. Positivity decreased 5.2 to 4.8% per CovidView. Testing decreased for multiple reasons,
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Ganesh Kadamur
iamgkadam
A (very long) thread on testing, the current scenario, and what ails us from testing more.TL;DR version - unlikely to be able to do mass-scale testing w status quo. Need
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KJ Seung
kj_seung
Example 2. Is PCR testing of asymptomatics a good idea? This man is COVID positive but has no symptoms at all. He says he has been completely healthy for the
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Vasudev Bailey, PhD
vasudevbailey
The list of serological tests. Summary: tons of choices and very little quality control or standardization. What sensitivity / specificity you ask? Most of these companies don't publish it, and
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
BREAKING (not so surprising) NEWS: The Trump Admin is touting rapid antigen paper tests. The @AbbottNews BinaxNOW assay is terrific and is a great start. But don’t be fooled -
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Breaking—White House blocks a new order from CDC to keep cruise ships docked until mid-Feb (likely under pressure from politically powerful tourism industry in Florida)Hey cruise industry—nobody sailing your
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David Lat
DavidLat
1/ Here's the latest chapter in my #COVID19 drama.On Saturday, I tested POSITIVE on a #PCR test. Was I reinfected?(Note: this is a multi-tweet THREAD; please read ALL tweets in
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
nataliexdean
1/7 Lots of folks trying to understand sensitivity and specificity. Maybe the most important concept to understand right now is that of POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE.Given a test result is positive,
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Oommen C. Kurian
oommen
#AntigenTests #Masks #Lockdown India now has the highest daily recorded Covid19 new cases and deaths in the world, with cases and deaths plateauing. There are many who think India bungled
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TS Singh Deo
TS_SinghDeo
In response to the unbelievably baseless allegations made by Union Minister of Health @drharshvardhan ji here are some facts which are enough to prove that his is a politically driven
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