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Dr. Theresa Tam
CPHO_Canada
1/3 @GovCanHealth is reviewing a range of simpler to use and faster #COVID19 tests. As the regulator, Health Canada is responsible for ensuring the safety, effectiveness and quality of all
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Ravichandran
acitizenwrites
Coronavirus-The great coverup: Jan 20th-29th. Only 8 hospitals in Wuhan had facilities for testing for infection. without their confirmation other hospitals could not admit patients for treatment. Wuhan population 11.1
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Dr. KakoliGDastidar
kakoligdastidar
1) ICMR - Flawed policy in Covid testing. Only tested symptomatic foreign travellers. Did not test non symptomatic foreign travellers. No community testing. Prior to March 20. In April policy
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Gregg Gonsalves
gregggonsalves
This is journalistic malpractice. If we don't have scale-up of testing, we will be in lock-down for months & months. There is no debate on this, why frame it like
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
The only way we can gett back to work and play without a disastrous second wave of disease is through testing on a massive scale, coupled with (IMO) contact tracing
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Patrick Layton
patrick_layton
Ding Ding Ding! You are correct sir. Gates’ study isn’t using an inert placebo, instead opting for a substance with known benefits. Could this be to hide the benefits of
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Zain Chagla
zchagla
Ontario has 13000 in testing capacity through and many other labs have supported us up. Right now if there is a capacity to fill - we need to have every
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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
ashishkjha
Thread (1/n)2 weeks ago, we tested about 100,000 people in a day. Today, we tested 135,00.That is a measly 35% increase. In 2 weeks!During that time, # of cases has
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Ashleigh Tuite
AshTuite
We've been playing around with @AdamJKucharski @cmmid_lshtm #COVID19 contact tracing model (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.20077024v1) to see what levels of symptomatic case testing and timeliness of case finding are required
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Aaron Ginn
aginnt
1/ Norway cancels its mass COVID testing program:"Norway's health agency has abandoned plans to test broadly for coronavirus after judging that the spread of infection in the country is now
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Courtney Milan 🦖
courtneymilan
Part of the point of lockdown was to halt the spread of the virus to give us time to develop a comprehensive testing regime so that we could get out
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𝔻𝕣𝕖𝕨𝕊𝕞𝟙𝕥𝕙
DrewSm1th
The argument about hindsight in relation to hospital patients being sent to care homes is frustratingly circular and ignores that care workers raised concerns about PPE and testing whilst it
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scottderrickson
Here's a very bothersome question that nobody seems to be addressing: why are coronavirus numbers in total lockdown places like California still going up, while Georgia reopened 19 days ago
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Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India
PrinSciAdvGoI
Important. Increasing the number of testing labs. Testing for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 typically involves four-steps: Sample collection, isolation of the viral genetic material, performing the
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Sen. Jay Chaudhuri
jay_chaudhuri
#COVID-19 #COVIDNC UPDATE (as of 7:45 a.m.)- Cases- Testing- Latest ActionCASES+ N.C. = 3,908 Cases (Deaths=74; Hospitalized=423; Counties=91)+ Wake =391 Cases+ U.S. = 501,615 Cases (Deaths=18,777)TESTING+ Testing Completed = 57,645;
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Bjorn Lomborg
BjornLomborg
Significant data indicate corona is no worse than common flu.Yes, we need mass testing.But if true, shutting down the economy was possibly not the best response.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/without-mass-testing-were-flying-blind-through-th
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