Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #TESTVIRUSNOW
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Negative outlook by longtime director of @NIH: “If you look at the rates of new cases that are being diagnosed, we’re on an exponential curve. That curve, some would say, places us only about eight days behind Italy....” #COVID19 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
2) “If true, we have only a very short time before this becomes a national crisis with many people and hospitals quickly becoming very stressed with the ability to handle all of these sick people, especially older people who may need not just bed but even a ventilator.” #COVID19
3) “There are estimates that if nothing goes right and if we fail to flatten the curve and if health systems are overwhelmed, we might see the 📍deaths of as many as a million and a half people📍 in the United States.”😰 #COVID19
Thinking about a low cost easy to manufacture home test kit for #Coronavirus. Outline: #Nasal_swab (Q-tip) w/ freeze dried reagents for isothermal #DNA amplification with #COVID19 primers. Colorimetric readout by #iOS or #Android #App w/ #geolocation & #HIPPA compliant reporting. 
Read-out would be in minutes - timer in App - read by camera in your smart phone. No other machines. Links to telemedicine groups for positive results. Built in positive control - e.g. no color = improper test, green NEGATIVE, red POSITIVE.
I’ve done my best creating when faced by a challenge. Next gen sequencing when my son went to new born intensive care - #454 @iontorrent. Ultrasound on a chip @ButterflyNetInc when wanted to monitor my daughter’s kidneys.
CDC no longer disclosing the # of tests conducted anymore is worrisome. Though is it because most testing is now decentralized to local state labs? And hence testing counts no longer easy to aggregate in one tally? CDC needs to build the IT system to aggregate all data. #COVID19
2) CDC also just cancelled their press conference. Were they muzzled by WH or is it because of the flap over not reporting the testing counts on their website above? Reporters are baffled. #COVID19
3) Now an upset member of Congress, @repmarkpocan has written a letter to @CDCDirector demanding answers why the CDC has inexplicably removed # of #COVID19 tests🧪 performed. There are hundreds if not low thousand of cases undetected because of insufficient testing. #TESTVIRUSNOW
