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‘It’s Kitchen Sink Time’: Fast, Less-Accurate Coronavirus Tests May Be Good Enough
Nytimes.com 47h 22 tweets
Experts are revising their views on the best methods to detect infections, setting aside long-held standards so that the spread of the virus can be more quickly tracked and contained.
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Michael Mina To save society from this virus, we need to focus on daily fast #COVID19 tests. These are more critical now than even vaccines Forget the headlines! These are not less accurate. They are perhaps MORE accurate to tell when transmitting Ill explain 1/ 36h
Johns Hopkins Goes Fully Remote for Fall, Urges Students Not to Come to Campus
Lindsay Ellis - CHE 37h 8 tweets
Thursday’s announcement is the latest shoe to drop in a late-summer wave of announcements, one after the next, of scaled-back reopening plans.
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Neil Clancy Wow. Hopkins fully remote for fall semester. Undergrad campus is compact, self-contained & student body is small. Universal testing was in place for 2x per wk, at place w exceptional on-ground #COVID19 expertise. They don't think they can pull it off. 23h
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Lindsay Ellis NEWS: Johns Hopkins, with its world class hospital and breakthrough Covid tracking, reverses to be remote for fall. It's urging students to stay home. A planned 2x-weekly testing frequency was an “incomplete defense” against the virus, said 37h
Fast, cheap tests could enable safer reopening
Science 41h 6 tweets
> Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation Even as the United States ramped up coronavirus testing from about 100,000 per week in mid-March to more than 5 million per week in late July, the...
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Alessandro Vespignani “screening whole populations, using faster, cheaper, and sometimes less accurate tests’ 36h
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Eric Topol I need to change the title of this piece from "Fast, Cheap [#COVID19] Tests Could Enable Safer Reopening" Δ "Could" -> *Will* by We need these now. For every household. It's the exit strategy from hibernation. 41h
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Carl T. Bergstrom If colleges and universities want to reopen, I would like to see them deploy these kinds of fast, cheap tests to screen the entire community a couple of times a week. Featuring modeling work from , , and others. 34h
Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: a living systematic review and meta-analysis
medRxiv 48h 2 tweets
BACKGROUND There is disagreement about the level of asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We conducted a living systematic review and meta-analysis to address three questions: 1. amongst people who...
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Isaac Bogoch Emerging data suggesting that truly asymptomatic #COVID19 cases may be less frequent than earlier thought. This systematic review finds ~20% are asymptomatic (rather than ~40% or more in some studies) & notes this issue still requires further evaluation. 48h
Here’s How to Crush the Virus Until Vaccines Arrive
Nytimes.com 16h 23 tweets
To save lives, and save the economy, we need another lockdown.
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Marc Lipsitch Impressive argument that is hard to dispute: Here’s How to Crush the Virus Until Vaccines Arrive 16h
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 data is difficult
bioRxiv 25h 2 tweets
Numerous studies covering some aspects of SARS-CoV-2 data analyses are being published on a daily basis, including a regularly updated phylogeny on nextstrain.org. Here, we review the difficulties of inferring reliable phylogenies by example of a...
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Alexis Stamatakis In our latest preprint we find that phylogenetic analyses of SARS-CoV-2 data are extremely challenging due to weak signal and that rooting the tree is difficult. We provide some recommendations on analyzing SARS-CoV-2 data. 25h
Modeling SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks in workplaces, universities, and other congregate settings - Color
Color - Color 39h 1 tweets
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has upended the way we work, teach, and socialize. As the pandemic continues, institutions are solving for how to bring people back on-site safely. One of the most important aspects of returning on-site is ensuring that...
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Carl T. Bergstrom 1. As you may know, I'm a strong advocate of COVID testing. For the past few months, I've been collaborating with the people at Genomics to understand how workplace testing could reduce outbreak sizes. Out today, a blog post about what we found. 39h
Scientists May Be Using the Wrong Cells to Study Covid-19
Wired 47h 13 tweets
How did an African green monkey that died in 1962 get involved in the biggest research debacle of this pandemic?
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen This is a great piece from about a topic that people often don't think about: it's REALLY important to consider the types of cells being used for in vitro experiments, especially those concerning #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus drug efficacy. 44h
Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand | NEJM
New England Journal of Medicine 19h 11 tweets
Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand
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Eric Topol Here's how New Zealand eliminated #COVID19 new 19h
MWRA - Wastewater COVID-19 Tracking
Mwra.com 17h 1 tweets
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Bill Hanage This looks... well it speaks for itself. Sewage titers from the Boston MA area are distinctly on the up (data at ) 17h
Coronavirus Cases Are Surging. The Contact Tracing Workforce Is Not
NPR.org 26h 8 tweets
NPR surveyed all 50 states about their contact tracing work. The workforce has barely grown since mid-June while cases have skyrocketed.
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Caitlin Rivers, PhD Coronavirus Cases Are Surging. The Contact Tracing Workforce Is Not. Excellent survey of tracing capacity by and 14h
Using a real-world network to model localized COVID-19 control strategies
Nature Medicine 26h 2 tweets
Combining fine-scale social contact data with epidemic modeling reveals interactions among contact tracing, quarantine, testing and physical distancing for controlling COVID-19.
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Josh Firth Out now in - Using a real-world social network to model localized #COVID19 spread, we show targeted tracing & quarantine strategies are most efficient when combined with other interventions 26h
Georgia teens shared photos of maskless students in crowded hallways. Now they’re suspended - The Boston Globe
BostonGlobe.com 24h 1 tweets
At least two North Paulding High School students who shared images of their jam-packed hallway full of their mostly maskless peers have been suspended, and the principal has warned other students about what could happen if they do the same.
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Marc Lipsitch Georgia teens shared photos of maskless students in crowded hallways. Now they’re suspended 24h
Moderna to charge $32 to $37 a dose for its COVID vaccine
TheHill 19h 1 tweets
Moderna will charge between $32 and $37 a dose for its experimental coronavirus vaccine for some "low volume" customers, the company's CEO said Wednesday
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Andy Slavitt Moderna to charge $32 to $37 a dose for its COVID vaccine. The CEO who has been selling stock routinely, describes this as a gift, “well under its value.” Considering we taxpayers paid for it, I think it’s approximately $32-$37 too high. 19h
100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world
The Conversation 33h 4 tweets
New Zealand is one of a small number of countries that have managed to eliminate community transmission of COVID-19. It's close to a 100-day milestone with no new cases in the community.
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Aalisha 100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world via 33h
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