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Inspired this morning by the students and postdocs who refuse to buy into the hyper-competition narrative and instead go out of their way to support, hype, and encourage each other. Thank you for your leadership and all you contribute to our academic culture!
Looking at you @ChemistryCayk @michmuzz @cesapo @Finetraces786 @ally_boyington @STEMxicanEd @xiaofei_lin @stanna_dorn @SusannaLHarris

...and so many more that I don't have space to name!

Comment below to recognize the students and postdocs who inspire you by inspiring others!
@jesswade @astronaia @AJSantiagoLopez @brea_manuel3 @BMorgan_Chemist @NasYousefi @DianeKarloff
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You've no doubt seen talk about "reopening" the country. In Georgia, it's even happening. Is this a good idea? We say that we need more testing in order to know. We definitely need more testing, but even that has limitations in preventing the spread of #COVID19. Why?

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A super important thing to know up front is that when we talk about the “COVID test” we are really talking about a set of different tests that have varying ability to detect a current or past infection. I wrote a thread about that here:
While some tests are more sensitive than others, none of them are perfect. We don’t know how long after becoming infected before a person can spread the virus to others, but we do know that none of the “nasal swab” tests can detect infection immediately.
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If you’ve ventured out lately, you’ve probably noticed lots of people wearing gloves. At the grocery store. Driving their car. Even when out walking their dog. Does this protect against #COVID19? The answer is that gloves are only as effective as how you use them. A thread.
Before I dive in, I need to start by saying that unless you are performing medical or lab procedures where you’re likely to come in contact with bodily fluids or other toxic materials, you probably don’t need latex or nitrile gloves. Let’s save those for people who need them.
The purpose of gloves is twofold: to protect you from the things you touch and to protect the things you touch from you. However, this all breaks down if you aren’t super careful to distinguish between “clean” and “contaminated.”
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You might have seen a “scientific study” that said chloroquine can cure #COVID19…and then another one that shows that it can’t. Wondering what’s up with this? Are scientists lying to us? Are they just confused? Usually not. It all has to do with how we do science. A thread.
Imagine you asked me what the weather was like and I said it’s 60 degrees out. You then walk outside and find that it’s 60 degrees and raining. I wasn’t wrong and I wasn’t lying to you, I just didn’t have all of the information.
Science is similar. When scientists publish a paper, they are saying “this is what we know.” They have posed a question, gathered some data, and drawn the best conclusions they can from those data.
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