#Tests

An epidemiologist's primer to DIAGNOSTIC TESTING- sensitivity & specificity- positive and negative predictive values- likelihood ratios- pre- and post-test probabilitiesSound familiar?Sound really confusing?In this I'll try to t
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With the increase in testing going on, we’re now seeing people testing positive now in May, who tested negative in March and April. These are not due to failure to
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Our fondly remembered 90s team, wasn't that successful as it had the potential to be. Early 90s we struggled to beat WI. Mid 90s it was SA and SL. 99
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#COVID19Ontario: No, the increase in new daily cases is not due to increased daily tests.Line = 7 day moving average. #COVIDー19 Also not due to re-opening (we will find out
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The Georgia COVID-19 website has raised some questions at times, as the display often makes it seem like the number of cases are dropping. First graphic from early May Second
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Please take a careful look. There is a 1.1% false positive rate in this PCR test. These kits are global.But that’s not the main problem.The eagled-eyed note that NL63 is
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Since I write about it everyday here's a thread about how dismal our testing is in #Telangana. Its a long thread, bear with it.We have conducted 19k tests done TILL
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As we move closer to 11/3, I marvel over the cruelty that for so long Black civilians were systematically and specifically denied the right to participate. I’m grateful to every
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#THREAD: For those curious about why @NotreDame’s COVID dashboard yesterday and today didn’t include the 7 additional football positive tests, I asked ND VP Paul Browne. He replied: (1/) “Test
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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
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There are lots of scared and ignorant people turning on their neighbours, communities and other people from their not so anonymous SM sites and phones.Be informed, stay informed and think
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Dabo has been tone deaf on various topics last few years. A lot of talk in this world about “personal responsibility “ but he takes none for sending a player
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Why are people shocked to find stores running out of #essentialgoods, #hospitals suddenly lacking supplies and equipment (even beds), the general lack of flexibility by actors, whether #government or #privatebusiness,
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It’s coming to the end of Day 3 of #selfisolation for me due to suspected #covid19 so in this thread I wanted to give an update as I experienced 2
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i'd like to use sweden and illinois to tie several concepts together.the two are similar size, density, and population.illinois locked down and wore masks. sweden did not.sweden counts covid deaths
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@ncjamieson Hey, I'm trying to write marble tests (with rxjs-marbles) for this `createDataCron` function, but everything I try just ends up in an infinite loop. https://twitter.com/OliverJAsh/status/1245647179596697600Do you have any idea
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