#Test

sheologian

sheologian

I take “performance enhancing drugs” every morning. I take escalitopram and Adderrall. Every day at 2pm I drink a really strong cup of another “performance enhancing drug,” coffee. Other substances

Megan DeJarnett (she/her)

ordinarilymeg

trying not to be resentful of all the people who are on like their third covid test of the semester, because I’d hate to be back at school in person

✨Doreen✨

DoreenGLM

African governments must pay attention to incoming threats from the West.In times of scarcity, attacks on African bodies & our resources are justified.These medical research French doctors are on television

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

A very interesting conversation about forecasting the future (with the Superforecaster guy), where it tends to pick up predictive alpha, the sociological makeup of people who repeatedly make good predictions,

Tory Fibs

ToryFibs

ThreadClever trickery in Government promise of 100,000 tests a day•Target is 25,000 conventional tests a day. Not 25,000 persons tested but 25000 tests. That means a target of about 16000

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Wrote about why India likely has 25K+ deaths dailyPushback: we lack hard data on crematoriums so we can't be sureTrueBut we get 25K+ deaths no matter how you lookAnother approach:400,000

Radha Iyengar Plumb

RadhaKIyengar

this is v important tl;dr- antibody testing isn't a panacea. its effectiveness depends on rates of infection and test quality. you can follow the math earlier in the thread or

Jasmine Guillory

thebestjasmine

Pro tip: expiration dates on eggs are nonsense! (Expiration dates on most things are). Your eggs will last at least a month longer than the date, please don’t stress yourself!

Rena Evans

rena_kaye

This article and take are absolutely horrible. It’s understood that infection doesn’t always equal contagiousness. The experts in the field are trying to say we need to figure out a

Linda Dykes

DrLindaDykes

Hey, EM peeps. What stops you sending more patients home? Would it be helpful to have a blood test capable of identifying patients with a zero-or-thereabouts risk of dying in

Boomerish

stuartgt

Just discovered how broken the UK COVID-19 system really is. Strap in...Family member sent home from work with a temp and request to get tested. Fair enough. Go on website.

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

OK, quick thread on the 3 major types of statistical issues in seroprevalence studies—that is, studies that try to figure out how many people had COVID-19, like the one released

Andrew Peng

TheAPJournalist

.@CNN homepage now: "Trump and first lady test positive for Covid-19" .@nytimes homepage now: "Trump and First Lady Test Positive for Coronavirus" .@washingtonpost homepage now: "Trump says he and first

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Some Great news!!Terrific news from ⁦@AbbottNews⁩ and a MASSIVE step forward towards widescale cheap, simple, rapid tests. This is the type of test that not only will diagnose ppl -

Prof. Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: main points on the latest govt data that I presented as part of the @IndependentSage open meeting today (you can see full presentation and discussion here https://youtu.be/rA0LX7fKxd4?t=60 ) 1/9

Emma Birkett

emskibirkett

World-beating #TestandTrace @MattHancock @BorisJohnson? A thread.Visiting family for the long holiday weekend, 1 of the smalls had a sniffle & headache so decided to get a test. Tuesday: apply for