#Tests

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: For the last 6 months, FDA’s device center worked effectively with labs to advance hundreds of tests for Covid. A new HHS policy that extricates FDA from this work

Borghert Jan Borghmans

StripyMoggie

The people: We want tests! Labs: Here is a quick explainer: to test a patient you need a swab. There is a global shortage of swabs. The swab goes to

Sarang Bhalerao

bhaleraosarang

Cricket has seen many superstars but not all of them have had great starts to their careers. Here’s a thread on some of the top cricketers who had an ordinary

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

This is a tweet thread about rapid testing. It is meant to highlight something that most people, including most journalists and doctors, who are publicly skeptical about rapid tests seem

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

1/7 Lots of folks trying to understand sensitivity and specificity. Maybe the most important concept to understand right now is that of POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE.Given a test result is positive,

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ Gov. Greg Abbott promised that all those who need a coronavirus test “will get one.”But tests are scarce near the border, where there is a large at-risk population.Counties are

Oxford UG Admissions

OxOutreach

With 10 days to go until the @ucas_online deadline for applications to @UniofOxford, we're bringing back our FAQs!Keep checking this thread for answers to some of the top question we

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

On Friday (Sept 18), #Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer told us that Case counts in Canada indicate “accelerated epidemic growth”. Is this true or is it ye olde #Coronaphobia? Let’s

Joe Bruno

JoeBrunoWSOC9

NEW: Meck County is warning residents that some rapid tests for COVID-19 providing misleading results. The health director says there is at least one non-FDA approved test being used in

Brianna Keilar

brikeilarcnn

Across the country, election workers and officials risked their health so Americans could vote during a coronavirus spike. Tonight, many are in quarantine after being exposed to the virus. In

Alasdair Allan

aallan

All those younger programmers advocating “throwing that COBOL in the garbage and rewrite it from scratch,” don’t understand legacy systems. You should (almost) never rewrite from scratch, and (almost) never

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

There's no perfect panacea to the nation's testing crisis, but one oft-talked-about strategy is frequent, fast, cheap at-home testing. Lots of really interesting pros and cons to this 1/12https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/health/ra

Nelba Márquez-Greene

Nelba_MG

People are going to make fun of you. They’re going to call you paranoid. They will shout, “You can’t live afraid!” They’re gonna talk behind your back. They’re going to

flo

FloDestoyer

Kenny in hospital no symptoms gets a test and a stay in hospital I had underlying health issues, horrific symptoms for 2 weeks no test no docs just told take

Aaron Leibowitz

aaron_leib

Why did everyone on Fisher Island get access to antibody tests? @UMiamiHealth is giving conflicting information.After an island rep said it was part of UM research, UM's rep told me

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

I’ve noticed a lot of people slipping up on how they interpret UK Covid-19 prevalence & testing data, so here’s a very brief thread on how to interpret figures from