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A cheap paper strip test for used daily can help stop #COVID19

Even if the test is not that analytically sensitive

These exist. Can be produced at $2ea.

The @FDADeviceInfo, @NIH & others should push for these

Me and @Kotlikoff suggest this here

nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opi…
With @DanLarremore, Roy Parker et al we recently showed this can work

Analytical test sensitivity should take back seat to cost & turnaround time of results

A poorer test used daily is MUCH better than a high quality test used once or even used weekly

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Also crucial to the above referenced paper are @MilindTambe_AI @brwilder and @jameshay218
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Michael Mina
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To best utilize #COVID19 PCR test results, we should provide the Ct values for clinical interpretation to help guide clinical decisions and infection control. 1/

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…
Currently results are provided as a positive or negative. Viral titers change over as many as 10 orders of magnitude. Interpreting the ct value could give clinicians more insight into their patient’s course of infection and offer new ways to conserve PPE.
This recommendation comes with all of the caveats of test validation - if the Ct is reported back, then pathology labs would have to validate that the Ct value is itself an accurate measure of biological viral load. Interpretation would have to be taken in clinical context.
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Michael Mina
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Updates on #COVID19 Serology

Antibody survey data is increasing [All have limitations: hotspots are not representative, some tests may have false positives]

However, LA, Boston, NYC, Santa Clara, Netherlands, ..., now evidence potential transmissibility of the virus...

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Seroprevalence in LA, Santa Clara, Netherlands have ~3+%. and suggest wide transmission

(Recognizing that these may not all be accurate)

These %s are early April & antibodies form ~10+ days post virus exposure. So most exposures measured happened before March ~25.

2/6
Since March ~25, >3x more cases have occurred in these places. Today these populations may have >10% cumulative incidence.

More recently, area of MA had ~30% positivity and one area of NYC, 15% of a pop were positive for virus - antibody results would be higher...

3/6
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Michael Mina
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In US

Perhaps 30+ MILLION have had #COVID19 virus

In NYC, 15% of pregnancies had antibodies
A German town had 14%
Most asymptomatic

Some nursing homes have ~50%+

Clearly this virus transmits fast

If this is the case, it begins to paint a new path forward for society:

1/n
If shown to be consistent in additional studies, such high numbers infected would suggest

1) SARS-CoV-2 has a much lower fatality rate than we think (by an order of magnitude or more)

2) Population immunity is already building up

Elderly would still remain vulnerable... 2/n
US as of today

among least vulnerable (<55y)

877 deaths; 231M people.

For different assumed % infected (mostly b4 social dist), infection fatality would be:

a) 0.1% infected = 0.37% IFR
b) 1% = 0.037%
c) 10% = 0.0037%
d) 30% = 0.0012%

Truth most likely near c (or d).

3/n
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