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Reporting progress on #coronavirus Home Test from our teams internal email: Just wanted to give a brief update from the #molbio team as we build momentum towards delivering an at-home, user-friendly, rapid #COVID19 test...We are actually detecting Covid19 #RNA in solution now! 1/
... we got early proof today that we can do reactions from RNA (the genetics code of #SARSーCoVー2 not DNA so it’s more insidious). Our method (which amplified the RNA without a machine) is very tolerant of #saliva - (we still have to crack open the virus RNA for full proof) 2/
The parenthesis in the above tweets are my commentary and I also edited out jargon. But wanted to share our internal optimism. We now know, except for breaking the #virus open to expose its #RNA we should be able to do a #COVID19 test without a #PCR machine @yale and @Penn 3/
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¿Cuándo entraremos a la fase de crecimiento exponencial del #coronavirus en #México?

Depende de muchos factores, pero puede analizarse desde el punto de vista estadístico con la información que tenemos 📈

Pásale a este hilo y te lo cuento 👇🏽

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En epidemiología, los científicos usan un parámetro llamado número reproductivo básico (R0)

El R0 mide (en promedio) cuantas personas puede infectar una persona portadora de una enfermedad a lo largo de un período infeccioso Image
En el caso del #coronavirus se ha estimado que el R0 es aproximadamente 2.5

Es decir, cada portador del virus #SARSーCoVー2 puede infectar en promedio 2.5 personas Image
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