#Sensitivity

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ Has anyone seen data on the testing specs for rtPCR (sensitivity/specificity) in asymptomatic/presymptomatic #covid19 patients?This is critical-- but if there is low sensitivity/high false negative in this patient population,

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

*ICYMI*: Yesterday, this administration expanded its ban on diversity and antiracism trainings to include federal contracts. Official document linked below, but here are a few of the highlights.1/ THREAD.https://www.npr.org/2020/09/22/91584

Isabel Rodriguez

isabelrodbar

Are SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence estimates biased? Pre-print with @sakitakahashi1 and @bgreenhouse1 @EPPIcenter_UCSF. Short answer: We need data on the sensitivity of serological assays to detect asymptomatic and mild infections! https://osf.

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

Felixotic

felix_cohen

Let's talk about tests for a second. When there's a diagnostic test, we look at 2 numbers: sensitivity (how likely is it that someone who has the condition get's a

Jan Owen

janjowen

1) A thread on being a sensitive/high "feeling" individual: Growing up, I was often told, "You are too sensitive." Particularly at school. This was obviously meant as a negative observation

Autistic Max

MaxieMoosie

So here’s a problem I found on reddit and I want advice on this. A young autistic woman is dating a trans man. She has a sensory sensitivity to leg

Gavin Baker

GavinSBaker

1) All for anyone starting a fund. Did not mean to discourage.Evidently it wasn't very hard for @DanielSLoeb1 The beginning is difficult for most. Lots of rejection.No matter how hard

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

An excellent question about the accuracy of serology tests. THREAD, WITH SPREADSHEET THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND PLAY WITH!https://twitter.com/delta_vee/status/1260928159521878016 I'm going to riff off this thread about a particular COVID-19

F Rodriguez-Sanchez

frod_san

This is very important. And it applies to any predictive model, not just COVID tests. Models with 95 or 99% 'accuracy' can still produce many false positives/negatives.1/nhttps://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1247449207956537345 This figure n

Archer Lewys, Chaos Incarnate (💀Spoopy Edition💀)

ArcherLewys

sometimes I worry whether people use me to get ahead because I try and be nice to everyone I come across on here - like, I love everyone here, but

Irène P. Mathieu

gumbo_amando

So you want students to come back to campus as long as they can show a negative COVID test, huh? #LRT Let's break this down.A negative test result does not

Stian Westlake

stianwestlake

Covid testing is big news right now: with a mass testing pilot starting in Liverpool, Boots announcing rapid test plans, and places like universities testing staff and students.Here’s a thread

Andrew Dessler

AndrewDessler

To understand what this means, realize that climate change is fundamentally an energy balance problem. Energy in for the Earth comes from the Sun, energy out comes from heat (IR

శాంతి పసుమర్తి-Santhi

santhi_ps

If you are from Telugu states and are buying into this 'Hindi imposition' crap, I will judge you. You are mostly a hypocrite who doesn't care about Telugu. You think

John Cherian

jjcherian

Ok, so what's wrong with the confidence intervals in this preprint? Well they publish a confidence interval on the specificity of the test that runs between 98.3% and 99.9%, but