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Slovakia (pop 5.5M) is attempting a mass COVID-19 screening campaign using rapid antigen tests. The public health community is going to learn a lot. Here's what I'm looking for... 1/https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22519165/coronavirus-in

Here is my summary of an exciting new @NBA + longitudinal COVID testing paper.Writing a thread about COVID and the NBA has been on my bucket list for some time,

How well do COVID rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) perform in detecting infectious people? A new preprint from @JankovanBeek @IgloiZsofia & @MarionKoopmans finds that the answer depends on (1) which

Preprint: Viral surveillance testing is crucial, but not all surveillance strategies are equal. We modeled the impacts of test frequency, assay limit of detection, test turnaround time, measuring impact on

My colleagues and I are formally seeking a retraction of the recently published “Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19.” The full text of our

Sensitivity & specificity affect the inferences that we can draw from seroprevalence studies & inform the number of samples we need for statistical confidence. To help, we built two calculators.

Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank the defective leaking pneumatic in his office chair stem for keeping him grounded during these chaotic times. Not a very uplifting situation, to be