#Tests

Eighth Century Woodchipper 🌳🪓

BonifaceOption

The problem with highly advanced statistical models is not that the formulas are incorrect or the experts are idiots (though many are IYIs); it is that they are reliant upon

Affable Misanthrope

mea_gulpa

India : ~ 625,000 tests, 27,000 +iveUK : ~ 670,000 tests, 153,000 +iveWaiting for @bbc goats to write a piece on how India is testing less therefore lower number of

Raghib Ali MPH MSc MA(Camb) MA(Oxf) DLSHTM FRCP

drraghibali

I'm still seeing two widespread misunderstandings of this graph and the data. The first is that cases are now as high as they were during the first wave – leading

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked ~4.16 million tests, up 152k from yesterday, a bit over the April average. The testing plateau continues.Note that we can only track

Meg Wingerter

MegWingerter

Thread of a few observations from Colorado's 4 p.m. data dump. On the dashboard, Boulder and Logan counties are still in red, when looking at the number of cases. Only

(((Charles Fishman)))

cfishman

US Coronavirus Update for Monday, April 20, 2020~ Trends back on courseFatalities first ~• Total US covid-19 deaths as of Mon, Apr 20: 42,335• Increase in last 24 hours: 1,669

Grant Tinsley, PhD

GrantTinsleyPhD

I frequently see misconceptions about body composition, both in the peer-reviewed literature and on good ol' social media. As such, I thought it may be helpful to share some basic

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking

David T.S. Fraser

privacylawyer

If you're wondering how the Canadian #COVIDAlert App works without collecting any personal information (including your location), it's actually super-clever. If you install and activate the app, it will run

Vlad Vexler

VladVexler

A controversial idea but it's true - the disadvantage of privilege. This is NOT a theoretical idea; rather, it is an epidemic in a city such as London.Let me take

Bleeding Heartland

LauraRBelin

WOW. @IAGovernor said if you're part of a vulnerable population, don't go to ISU's football game. But she thinks it could be safe to assemble 25,000 fans in a stadium

Peter Castleden

peter_castleden

When a new virus emerges, there is naturally a reaction to worry in the absence of data. Epidemiologists will then typically use theoretical models to project the impact of the

Tomer Burg

burgwx

On a day where the US had by far its largest daily deaths yet (+1965), and surpassed the estimated H1N1 pandemic total deaths (up to 12,835 deaths this evening), I'll

el gato malo

boriquagato

less than 3% of positive PCR tests for covid were actually viable virus even at a 35 Ct.97% could not be cultured/were not live. these people were not sick nor

🏳️‍🌈 Rebecca 𓃹 ⎊ #BLM

Beccaasauruss

Today is #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay so here are some shocking statistics on vivisection; a practice which I believe is one of most heinous crimes that the human race inflicts on

Dr. Rob Davidson #WearAMask

DrRobDavidson

IMPORTANT: While "contact tracing" is essential to curbing the spread of #COVID19, new polls show many Americans don't want to do it. Here’s what it actually is & why we