#Tests

Gareth Parker

G_Parker

Lots of people are saying we aren't doing enough testing, and that apparent progress on slowing growth of new cases is because we are only testing travellers and close contacts.

John Bye

_johnbye

Some people still seem convinced the recent surge in covid-19 cases is caused by "false positives" (people who don't have the virus but still test positive due to various issues),

Jim Edwards

Jim_Edwards

Hello! Welcome to my daily look at coronavirus stats.Today, a focus on the UK. This afternoon Boris Johnson will give us his decision on whether to lift the lockdown.So let's

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

What I don’t want:- A return to stay-at-home ordersWhat I do want:- Major investment in proactive solutions that allow us to return as close to normal as possible What do

Jason Fagone

jfagone

Another explanation for the COVID-19 testing backlog in California — hospitals & clinics are using slower, bottlenecked testing pipelines instead of fast academic labs that have capacity to sparehttps://twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/12482915391444

Nicola

namenzie

This is bad. Newark mayor says a woman who tested positive for #COVID-19 gave a fake name and address and currently can't be found. Currently less than 200 cases and

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Both Montreal and Toronto continued to make progress in curbing the epidemiological curve of the #COVID19 pandemic on Sunday. Yet Ontario continues to screen far more people per capita

Tom 😷 Moore

thmoore

Today will go down as one of the greatest days in the history of American democracy. Not because Biden won. But because Trump is refusing to accept Biden’s win. 1/7

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

.@President_MU I recognize youve heard things like “50% sensitivity”In light of your comments it’s clear there are key pieces youve missedSensitivity nears 100% to catch potential superspreaders and others currently

Dr Anna Jerzewska

AnnaJerzewska

An all-day webinar today with the Belgian, Dutch, French, and Irish customs authorities (as you might have noticed by my earlier tweets).You know these traffic management systems we're trying to

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

"There is solid evidence emerging that COVID-19 patients are developing antibodies to the virus, as the human body does for most infectious pathogens."https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/what-do-antibody-tests-for-sars-cov-2-tell-us-

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RedRadicals

Many of the Government's official Coronavirus testing sites are run by private, non-medical, companies. Several healthcare professionals I've spoken to have raised that tests are, most of the time, not

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

Know Your Enemy

ItsWhatsername

Due to some odd symptoms, my doc Rx'd a bunch of tests since I was covid + at the spike of NYC pandemic 3/10.I assumed it was routine. Turns out,

StellarQ_777

StellarQ777

Why is nasal swap testing being used for this COVID 19 testing? Can't the same results be found by blood tests and or saliva swaps? Why this invasive and dangerous

Rijo M John, PhD

RijoMJohn

India crossed 10 crores #COVID19 testing milestone, the 3rd highest in the world! It ranks 104 for test/million populationCommendable for a country that is ranked 142 for per capita GDP