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1/ A hang-up on rapid tests that I've heard is that it'll be difficult for health depts to track resultsDecentralized screening makes that difficult but stopping spread should be the

1/ Based on our work on Ebola & Zika, when Covid hit in January, we called for mass screening with rapid tests as a way to stop Covid in US

1/ Still learning about new Abbott rapid test but a few immediate impressions from what's circulating- high sensitivity & specificity- can be used - like device-based rapid tests already with

THREAD1/ Overly focusing on how COVID19 may be amplified by protests misses the point that systemic racism against Black Americans - the target of the protests - is driving both

1/ W/Ebola in West Africa, there was a term 'Ebola business' that referred to the idea that Ebola was either made up or overblown & used as a way to

1/ #TestTraceIsolate is undoubtedly essential to rein in COVID from a 'top-down' public health perspectiveStopping epidemics though requires responses from 'bottom up' too From HIV, Ebola & Zika, 'behavior changes'

1/ The key – & challenge – to stopping #COVID19 is finding & breaking off enough asymptomatic/presymptomatic transmission. This ‘invisible’ spread seems to be driving the epidemic & making it

1/It’s easy & obvious to say we need more testing to stop this epidemic. (I have been guilty of this too.)When we say ‘test, test, test’ or ‘mass testing’, we