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Nate Silver
NateSilver538
There are a lot of well-intended and well-written critiques of the Santa Clara Co. serology study but at some point it's not that complicated. A test that *could* have a
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
Whatever the UK Gov #COVID19 strategy might be, mass testing for infection only works together with 'contact tracing' in the early stages of an outbreak, and not in the face
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Justin Hart
justin_hart
A few are quickly dismissing serology studies but they're ALL trending in the same direction: 2% to 4% of the population may have already have faced down #COVID19.LOTS of implications
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Bloom Lab
jbloom_lab
In a new study, we've measured how many children visiting a Seattle hospital have serological evidence of prior infection with #SARSCoV2: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.20114124v1Why is this important and what did we
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John Cherian
jjcherian
I've seen a lot of news about the LA study, and the error bars of that study may be seriously flawed as well. It is plausible that the data in
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Emily Deans MD đź‘»
evolutionarypsy
Does anyone have a link to the actual study?https://twitter.com/skarlamangla/status/1252327455609634817 Apparently it was 863 people? I’m sorry. AYFKM?!? I think to really declare numbers like this for a serology study
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Taal Levi
taaltree
Antibody tests are coming online. Never before have humans needed to understand Bayes rule more. Let's talk about why it's critical NOT to assume you are immune to covid-19 when
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Elaine 🦉🇮🇨
eiaine
Unpopular opinion: The biggest "tech" breakthroughs in recent years have been nothing more than clever hacks to get around onerous regulation. Eg: Bitcoin, Uber, Airbnb.https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1253020113198088200 Older example
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Ryan Radecki, MD MS
emlitofnote
What are antibody tests for #covid19, and why are they useful?These are going to help reopen America, and improve future mitigation and containment efforts supporting public safety. When your
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Patrick Charles - ID Doctor
P_Charles_ID_Dr
There are some concerning anecdotes emerging from overseas of people who were infected with COVID-19 earlier this year, proven by both PCR (swab) and serology (antibody) testing. 3–4 months after
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Youyang Gu
youyanggu
There has been a bit of skepticism for my model's estimate that 20% of Florida (& other states) have been infected.http://covid19-projections.com/us-fl While I'm not claiming that this is necessarily true, here
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Louie [BTC]
LouPalumbo
Thread of Links to articles and studies that show news about the true #COVID19 infection/mortality rates. “Science”1) German Study:0.37% Fatality Rate(Median Age 7 years older than US)https://reason.com/2020/04/09/preliminary-german-study-shows-a-co
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Alex Washburne
Alex_Washburne
@inschool4life, Nathaniel Hupert and I recently crunched some numbers suggesting millions of undetected COVID cases in the US the month of March.What have we learned since then, what do we
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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.
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David Inderias
d_inderias
When movement frees up again - People will not move as freely across borders. How about an immunity passport @tobowers @Sarah_Nabaa @tahpot @andrewbirt @BlockchainAUS #blockchain immunisation, serology, isolation requirements recent
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Andrew Noymer
AndrewNoymer
If you think 100–200k is a lot, consider this "gut-check math", or what @sinafala correctly described as a heuristic for one scenario. It's growing and now stands at over 500,000.https://twitter.com/AndrewNoymer/status/12455770171200552
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