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Posts from the ‘coronavirus diagnostics’ Category

02020-08-21SalivaDirect COVID-19 test “really has potential” to speed diagnosis: FDA Deputy Commissioner

02020-07-28Early Seroprevalence Study showed 6-24x more cases of COVID-19 than counted by antigen tests: JAMANETWORK

02020-07-07What’s happening now: “We are in freefall.” Uncontrolled virus transmission has led to a doubling of Florida’s new cases in the last ten days. Contact tracing can’t catch up.

02020-07-03New cases of COVID-19 in the US continue to set records, despite a bottleneck in testing. Death rates have not yet risen to match but chronic symptoms are appearing more often.

32020-07-01The Atlantic: the US is once again outstripping its testing supplies, and the federal government is not helping.

02020-06-19Low incidence of COVID-19 among protestors given voluntary tests: WIRED

02020-05-16Stanford antibody prevalence study had large rate of false-positives and motivated backers, resulting in unusually low estimate of COVID-19 case fatality rates, says whistleblower: Buzzfeed News

02020-05-06US testing and surveillance failures have led to political, economic, and medical disaster

02020-05-06SARS-COV-2, which causes COVID-19, has been found in a patient at a French hospital in December 2019, one month before the first confirmed case.

02020-05-02Science News: Contact Tracing: Complex and difficult, but vital to suppressing the pandemic of COVID-19 caused by SARS-COV-2