#Asymptomatics

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

Thread: 1. Why I have resisted simple test volume adjustments for Ontario's new case curve. It's the fallacy of aggregate assumptions. We know more tests generally means more cases, ALL

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

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ !! WEAR THE DAMNED MASK !! Not only was it obvious that masks don't work, have serious cardiovascular harms, and are moot because asymptomatics don't drive spread, but there

Prof Norman Fenton

profnfenton

1. This is a thread about the barriers to academic publication for work that challenges the ‘official narrative’ on Covid-19 such as our work challenging the 'official' data about asymptomatics.https://youtu.be/3qm3zI0j_OA

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing

Yechezkel Moskowitz 🇺🇸

ymosko

My theory is that this #WuhanCoronaVirus was not ready and leaked from the lab they were manufacturing it.Per Dr. Robert Baker, M.D., currently serving as President of the Westchester County

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

How well do COVID rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) perform in detecting infectious people? A new preprint from @JankovanBeek @IgloiZsofia & @MarionKoopmans finds that the answer depends on (1) which

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

Thread . This week I believe there may be more public data and rationale to support the CMOH's "plateau" opinion although there's still a LOT of uncertainty. #Covid19 #Covid19OntarioMore https://twitter.com/Billius27/statu

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Here is my summary of an exciting new @NBA + longitudinal COVID testing paper.Writing a thread about COVID and the NBA has been on my bucket list for some time,

Ben Chia

benbenchia

1/12 (thread)UK government policy in the first half of March is consistent with SAGE putting weight on theories that the UK already had a high prevalence of COVID-19 as a

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

Things to know about President Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, based on COVID-19 research to date.1. When did Hope Hicks catch the virus?Likely unknowable, but her symptoms offer some clues on the

Jevaughn 👑+++

Jevaughn_Brown

How about this for coronavirus "realism" - Let's spitball some numbers [THREAD]WHO March 24 report lists total cases: 372,757 & deaths: 16,231Given asymptomatics, misdiagnosis, low testing, too-late travel bans, let's

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Are we quarantining millions of people unnecessarily? Article by @apoorva_nyc on pitfalls of #COVID19 PCR for quarantine / public heatlth action / policy. *Disclaimer* the article is based on

Kevin Esvelt

kesvelt

Can tracing alone control COVID?Our model: it's possible if we >double efficacy by changing how we trace & use digital apps.Thanks to @willbradbio, @EthanAlley, @jhhhuggins, & epidemiologist @alun_l !https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.06.

Rajeev Chitguppi MDS

chitguppi

SARS-COV-2 is a weak virus inactivated by many disinfectants/ mouthwashes. Challenge is not 'virus inactivation'. That's easy. Challenge is how long will salivary viral loads remain low after mouth rinsing.

Lejoon

lejooon

Since early april I've been wondering if there's not a "black materia" of unexplained immunity to SARS-COV-2 by antibodies alone. The data did not really reconcile with the way cases