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Hmm, a covid test for about the price of a latte.
Great to see it; wish it would have been ~18 months ago, like it could/should have been.
@OpenCovidScreen #FFCE
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@OpenCoViDScreen
Open Science approach for Covid-19 screening that is Frequent, Fast-turnaround, Cheap & Easy. XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing – https://t.co/ih0CsZbMDm
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I post this regularly, and many express surprise.
This is the current childhood immunization schedule. Many childhood vaccines are three+ doses, sometimes a booster.
This is one reason why, unlike earlier centuries, we don't have cemeteries full of children. We've forgotten.
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I believe this is one of the most important articles written this entire pandemic
It hits on a topic that is central to our failed pandemic response
Public Health is not just a lot of Medicine stacked up.
Medicine can even be anti-public health
1/ nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opi…
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The sensitivity of a test not-taken is 0%.
An 'only-90%-sensitive' covid test used at-scale could have (and could still) fundamentally change the trajectory of the pandemic. It's sad & tragic the FDA & CDC are still using the wrong lens in this crisis.
Michael Mina@michaelmina_lab
How to think about rapid tests People often say: "But if a rapid test is 'only' 90% sensitive, its dangerous because 10% would get by" Better to think of it this way: if you have 100 parties and each has 1 infectious person show up... that's 90 outbreaks Prevented!!
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The FDA's excessive conservatism on covid test review/approval hasn't enabled supply & demand to provide enough low-cost tests now when we need them most.
A great 🧵 on the problem (and how it can be solved) from @michaelmina_lab ...
Michael Mina@michaelmina_lab
Here’s a frustrating secret Today - in midst of Omicron - millions of Americans are begging for access to rapid tests, thousands dying daily. Get this: many manufacturers with very high quality rapid tests are begging To ship 100’s of millions of tests to US But can’t. 1/
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Why we need to have *test-to-stay* programs for school.
Your child MIGHT have been exposed? Keep at home straight for 10-14+ days?
NO. Thats harmful.
Test each AM for 7 days. Each day Neg -> Go to school
Quarantines are information problems. Rapid test solve this issue.
Christopher Ingraham🦗@_cingraham
I got a minor breakthrough infection and my kids, who were asymptomatic and tested negative the whole time, will be out of school for three weeks by the time it's all over. It's madness.
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When even @CDCgov is describing rapid tests as tools meant to protect OTHERS… we have to wonder why these tools continue to be regulated as medical devices when it is abundantly clear from both CDC and @POTUS that these are most often Public Health tools.
We need an adjustment
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Before gathering with friends and family, consider using #COVID19 self-tests to protect those you care about. Along with vaccines, self-tests can help reduce the spread of COVID-19. View videos about how to self-test and learn more: bit.ly/2XuuySb.
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Important
Highly effective Merck and Pfizer COVID Treatments are likely to gain FDA EUA soon (I presume)
Both must be started within the first days of symptoms.
More reason to have RAPID tests in your cupboard. If you wait days for a lab test, the meds won’t work well
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Test-to-Stay needs to be national policy for all Schools: preschools & K-12+
We should not let Covid be an information problem - accurate rapid testing keeps students in school safely & ensures no unnecessary quarantines
It saved 18 person-years of school in 1 week in MA.
David Zweig@davidzweig
Test to Stay (instead of quarantines) in Massachusetts saved 6,677 in-person days of school in one week 0.22% of kids positive doe.mass.edu/covid19/positi…
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“A test not performed has 0% sensitivity.”
Michael Mina@michaelmina_lab
Why is it so hard for SO MANY ppl to see that not testing or testing very infrequently is = to ~100% false negatives. A test not performed has 0% sensitivity. So why shout against rapid tests that have a >95% accuracy for what matters for public health “Am I infectious”
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HUGE News!
White House finally recognizing crucial need for rapid tests as we get through this most recent wave of COVID (& after 700K lives lost)
This is good news & a show of support for public health from the White House and the FDA
However...
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washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10…
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We could have saved many lives if:
- we treated the virus as airborne until proven otherwise
-we focused on getting *everyone* better masks from the very start
-we utilized rapid antigen tests as a public health tool rather than a medical diagnostic
/1 #covid19
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Many ppl still disregard frequent fast testing - to know if infectious before infecting others - as useful
Rapid tests are >90% accurate to detect most infectious levels of virus & could be used daily
I ask simply: What better tool is there to slow transmission & support vacc?
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This is how we should have made rapid tests accessible middle of last year.
US is the wealthiest nation in the world and arguably the most advanced for bio technologies.
Yet we still haven’t given Americans the tools to know if they are infectious
We CAN and should do better
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Today's news about what appears to be a highly effective pill is welcome, to add to the anti-Covid armamentarium. What is missing, big, and for a long time, is this, and it needs to/can get fixed STAT:
nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opi… @nytopinion by @michaelmina_lab and Steven Phillips
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Entering a meeting COVID testing crisis.
Best thing we can do is scale tests by enabling more high quality rapid tests into the market
We have to be like Europe & evaluate tests on correct PUBLIC HEALTH metrics: speed, access, detection of infectious virus only
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“Rapid testing… allows people to learn within minutes whether they are…contagious… infectious people can stay home and quarantine before they infect others. Everybody else can carry on with life”
@DLeonhardt writes in @nytimes
“Where are the Tests?”
nytimes.com/2021/09/21/bri…
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“Quarantine is an information problem that happens when we dont know who is infectious after exposure”
Michael Mina@michaelmina_lab
Test-to-stay makes quarantines go away Quarantine is an information problem that happens when we dont know who is infectious after exposure But with rapid tests that specifically and sensitively detect infectious virus, we CAN know, on a daily basis and avoid large quarantines
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Did you know:
A test *not* performed has a sensitivity of 0% for symptomatic and asymptomatic ppl
A test w a 48 hr delay has 0% during the days of waiting
I talk a lot about sensitivity- but if we want to detect infectious people - frequency of testing is even more important.
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