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Michael Mina
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So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing
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To stop major outbreaks - we either need major behavioral change - seems unlikely - need to shutdown the economy again, vaccines (all of which problematic), or we need the
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Have been continually updating how to convey the idea of pushing for cheap $1 daily “low sensitivity” tests. The “low sensitivity” word makes many people a bit queasy. And without
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Number one comment of concern I receive about why we can't deploy rapid daily #COVID19 tests that test for people with likely transmissible virus: "We can't do this yet because
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This is a F*^%ing joke @US_FDA Only now, after 150,000 deaths, a test is finally authorized for asymptomatic screening. Worse, this offers nothing new! Americans will still require a doctors
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You may have heard that the Abbott IDNow rapid assay is not working as well as others (see here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.11.089896v1)The analysis is flawedMy opinion - it actually worked very well!The
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Updates on #COVID19 SerologyAntibody survey data is increasing [All have limitations: hotspots are not representative, some tests may have false positives]However, LA, Boston, NYC, Santa Clara, Netherlands, ..., now evidence
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UPDATE: New preliminary results in a german town show high fraction (14%) of population infected, mostly asymptomatically. (In US that would be 45 million people)I do not think we're there
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Could the US have >2 million #COVID19 cases by now? I'll be astounded if not! We simply don't test.The ratio of who gets a test vs who should, likely worse
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