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Posts tagged ‘COVID diagnosis’

02020-09-01Saliva specimens for SARS-COV-2 detection: 2 studies show parallel positivity and sensitivity

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

02020-05-21What Happened at the CDC? Why are they conflating the antibody test to SARS-CoV-2 and the antigen test? Why did they produce their own COVID test and not just accept the WHO antigen test?

02020-04-21“Fear of the False Negative Test” for SARS-COV-2 virus, cause of COVID-19: Medpage Today (an article review, followed by a long and fervent rant).

02020-04-19Skepticism of High inapparent COVID-19 numbers: Medscape suggests true case fatality rate is at least 0.4%. State governments will be bankrupted by this emergency.

02020-04-19CDC’s original SARS-COV-2 diagnostic test was hampered by a contaminated reagent; CDC took over a month to correct the terror: WaPo investigation. Added a photo of Shiva for emphasis.

02020-04-19CDC’s original SARS-COV-2 diagnostic test was hampered by a contaminated reagent: WaPo investigation.

02020-04-1760% of infected sailors on USS Theodore Roosevelt were free of symptoms after 94% of 4,800 tested: Reuters

02020-04-15Testing for COVID-19 has dropped 30% at commercial labs in the last week: Politico; self-collected samples could help

02020-04-12Data from Iceland suggest that roughly 89 to 94% of SARS-COV-2 infections (COVID-19) have gone undetected: BioRxiv. We are already behind the eight-ball on COVID-19 and the only way to catch up is with tests for everyone and a smartphone app.