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Catherine Moore 🦠🧬🇪🇺🏴🇬🇧
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In ‘normal seasons’ although we call October 1st the start of the flu season. We don’t see influenza starting to circulate widely until usually late November. At this time we’re
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In relation to my earlier tweet regarding ct values and viral load. Since lockdown, testing rates in the UK have been incredibly high, with lots of asymptomatic screening of asymptotic
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Request from a virologist- on #influenza As you can see from the Southern Hemisphere flu season, there is very little flu. This is great news..except, we select the viruses that
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With the increase in testing going on, we’re now seeing people testing positive now in May, who tested negative in March and April. These are not due to failure to
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@Adamprice @Plaid_Cymru please read these comments from English Biomedical Scientists in regards to the mega labs that you want to mimic in Wales.https://twitter.com/gayatrichohan/status/1253008645144616960 These are hardworking, dedicated, professio
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We do NOT routinely use serology to diagnose or even confirm past infection with ANY respiratory virus. Even influenza. Few labs may still use complement fixation tests, but they require
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I’ve been on Twitter for lots of years and I enjoy interacting with science twitter and anyone who want some advice around #CIVID19 (other viruses do exist). But I just
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I hope everyone now offering molecular testing for COVID outside of the routine laboratory network has all the appropriate checks in place to monitor for contamination. It’s a fact of
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