#Testing

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 135UCSF Medical Grand rounds today, available here https://tinyurl.com/y2tpw3h4 . If there could be such a thing as a “classic” set of topics in a pandemic that’s

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

Where does Jason Kenney acquire his misinformation? The Supreme Court writes “Health is subject to OVERLAPPING federal and provincial jurisdiction.”He can’t just rule over the Supreme Court like the Ayatollah

Nina

UnicornNina

1. I was just thinking and joining a few dots. We have been played for the last 40 years and what we are seeing now is the culmination of that.

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Despite asking people to wear masks while working out, a #COVID19 cluster has hit a gym in Terrebonne north of Montreal. In this thread, I will examine the expanding

Justin Feldman

jfeldman_epi

A quick analysis of Texas schools to illustrate a couple points about symptomatic covid testing and contact tracing data:(1) Many cases never get traced(2) Many infections don't become "cases" because

Bill Fitzgerald

funnymonkey

Test. And, another version. Let's see what happens. Another version, comparing two images of men. And, comparing two women: And, just as a sanity check, let's try the original test

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Covid-19 IFR is *NOT* 0.13% (THREAD)There's a lot of confusion and some downright appalling falsehoods in the heated debate about Covid-19. One particular point around which the "let the virus

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

DrTedros

Since the beginning of the #COVID19 pandemic, we knew that a vaccine would be essential for bringing the pandemic under control. But it’s important to emphasise that a vaccine will

facts&effects

EffectsFacts

(1/9) New thread and diagrams on cases/deaths in Sweden. I will keep this updated weekly to alert us if cases suddenly transform into a leading indicator of deaths. So far,

David Fisman

DFisman

Place-based nature of COVID-19 transmission might point the way forward for Ontario, on getting as close as we can to elimination. Would need ramped up testing, better resourced contact tracing,

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

"Nivedita Gupta from ICMR also told the court that it never said asymptomatic RAT negative persons should not undergo RT/PCR testing, it only said the symptomatic RAT negative patients be

Michelle “WEAR YOUR DAMN MASK” Jones.

maej43

I can’t tell you how upsetting it is for me to read tweets from Opposition Party members that are misleading and dare I say, outright false. My temperature is elevated,

Jennifer Williams

JenWilliamsMEN

By far the hardest thing I’ve found to cover during the pandemic in terms of telling the story. But it is both a political and a scientific one, bc mass

Jacob Peters

ArchiJake

Quick story about why hybrid & electric battery powered freight & long distance locomotives are more than just greenwashing. 1/ @BNSFRailway is testing these out right now, but they likely

Paul Cotterill

Bickerrecord

1/ You know what we've not heard for a bit? The Test & Trace success percentages. Anyway, they are available weekly to Jan 6th https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-england-statistics-31-december-2020-to-6-ja

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

THREADEven with cases surging, we can get control of this We need a coherent national plan based on 5 priorities1. Mask use is rising but not fast enough. We need

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