#Tests

Liz Kendall

leicesterliz

Extremely important work by @jburnmurdoch and others at @FT on Government’s failure to share crucial data on #COVID19 testing with Leicester council and other key local players 1/3https://www.ft.com/content/301c847c-a317-4950-a75b-8e66933

Peter Mills

PeterFRMills

Matt Hancock has just confirmed that Gov't is thinking about implementing 'immunity certificates' for those with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Both the science and the politics of this proposal need much more

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

Lockdowns may be much deadlier than we realize. Why?1: PCR tests sharply overstate how many people have Sars-COV-2.2: States use those tests to assign deaths from #COVID. If many people

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. Some hard facts to explain why Testing, testing, testing is not enoughIn our @RockefellerFdn action plan we called for 35 million tests/week, scaling up over the next 6 months

Amanda (Clark) Renzulli

CaptnPollyanna

Help me debate (with articles, data, etc.) the man I encountered today told me the following:-The deaths % is down-US has +cases bc we have +tests-Distancing for 65+ yo is

Reuben Rodriguez

ReubenR80027912

The most important part of Covid (and most vexing) is this: what is the IFR? CFR measures recorded cases but what everyone wants to know is how likely are they

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked more than 1.9+ million tests, up 155k from yesterday. ~360k have been positive.Note that we can only track tests that a state

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

New study of 200 #COVID19 patients, many with mild or no symptoms, suggests that up to TWICE as many people than detected by antibody tests may be immune, based on

Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎

suilee

1. Wuhan is calling its mass testing drive a "10-day battle." @vwang3 and I take a closer look at the government's plans to test 11 million residents. The numbers are

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

Public Health England—in response to The Sun—have confirmed by omission that they:1. Rebuffed help from commercial labs;2. Did not pursue a mass testing strategy. 3. Are too incompetent to be

jeffrey spence

spence_jeffrey_

I'm a bit confused about the conclusions of the new preprint on serological testing in Santa Clara county.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1 In the supplement they say 2 out of 371 + 35 known

Jose Olivares

jlosc9

NEW: A *second* staff member at the ICE Stewart Detention Center in Georgia has tested positive for COVID-19, a CoreCivic spokesperson confirmed.Stewart is one of the biggest ICE detention centers

K H A Y A M

KhayamSays

Born 28 May 1974, Misbah Ul Haq Known as the man of crisis.Thread Took responsibility of almost shattered team after fixing scandal. Carried his team single handedly along

Turna Ray

TurnaRay

@HHSGov recently added an #LDT FAQ to the statement on its website that @US_FDA cannot require premarket review of LDTs w/out notice-and-comment rulemaking. Here's the FAQ: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/laboratory-developed-te

Tamara Gilkes Borr

TamaraGilkes

I always heard that the @OfficialSAT was biased. I decided to dig further for my story this week @TheEconomist Turns out, we have A LOT more to worry about if

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

Race to track 200 people on flight after officials fail to tell airline of Covid cases8 teenagers returning from Crete tested positive in the U.K.You would think Serco would be