#Tests

A Jiji reporter who was there through Oct. 2 covering this very trial has tested positive for the coronavirus. No notices on tests or tracing contacts have come to the
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1/ When will COVID end? **Thread**No one knows. But:Remain extremely cautious till April 2021. Why? Read on... 2/ How it may end in 2021?- actual infections + cross immunity higher
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The tail is not stubborn. Its our reluctance to upgrade our #TestTraceIsolate and Infection prevention/Control in high risk settings that is holding us back.https://twitter.com/vicgovdhhs/status/1315770675030831104 How do we upgrade?Testing
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We all want businesses reopened as soon as possible, but we have to follow doctors' orders for it to be safe to do so. That starts with better testing. THREAD
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I’ve spent a lot of time this morning thinking about what adulthood looked like for the OG Baby-Sitters Club. Stacey abandoned her law degree after some limited success with her
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Just a mini thread on looking at COVID data (these are all from http://ClickonDetroit.com ) One would think this looks very promising Until you look at the number of tests going
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1) “We must all fight and, if necessary, die to teach people the truth.”Part of me didn’t even want to share this. There are a great many thousands of people
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1/ As you sit home watching #COVID death counts spiral, please know the official @CDCgov guidance for coding COVID-related deaths is as follows: any death where the disease “caused or
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As data scientists, we (with @math_rachel) have done our best to look at the data around covid-19, and what it means to you and your community.Our view: it is appropriate
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On this day in 1946, the USS Arkansas, an aging, 26,000-ton Wyoming class battleship, sank at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Baker test, the second of a
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If you've seen the Oscar-winning documentary Icarus and found the film and related matters interesting / fascinating then there's a fairly significant development about to break, soonish, in this thread.
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But the decision cannot wait until health systems are already overwhelmed. The time from infection to ICU admission is about 3 weeks, so any changes today will not show up
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A [Thread] to (hopefully) demystify #COVID19 #dashboards of the type that @NHSEngland has (hopefully) commissioned @PalantirTech to provide. There will be others they can't publish for legitimate reasons, but this
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(1/x) Thread: Rapid review of the REACT-1 round 6 interim report which is making headlines with scary numbers today. To follow this one, you'll need to download the full pre-print
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From what I have seen of the numbers (and understanding we have extremely unreliable models and limited local data), the 'leaky lockdown' that IK and Pakistan are using seems to
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THREAD: Just to offer a bit of clarity on testing delays/backlogs:There are two processes happening - sampling and testing.First you have a sample (or swab) taken at a testing centre
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