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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2020

    So weird how the COVID-19 casedemic became a hospitaldemic which then turned into a deathdemic Almost as if false positives were never really an issue at all 🤔

    9:08 PM - 16 Dec 2020
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

        The mathematical facts about false positives and COVID-19https://gidmk.medium.com/most-positive-coronavirus-tests-are-true-positives-60c95fe54fec …

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      1. Marco Piani‏ @Marco_Piani 16 Dec 2020
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        Just an heads up that ICUdemic is trademarkedhttps://twitter.com/Marco_Piani/status/1322986417211977729 …

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        Marco Piani @Marco_Piani
        Replying to @LearnLeapLean @FatEmperor @jenninemorgan
        Notice that ICUdemic (TM) is a registered trademark. Please contact me by DM for licensing. https://twitter.com/Marco_Piani/status/1322269873653821440 …
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      2. JH // from fairest tweeps we desire increase‏ @jhan2qt 16 Dec 2020
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        The media forgot to explain that the number of false positives drops with higher incidence, and at some point is exceeded by false negatives. This is trivial for math literate people, but I would bet that all others are not aware of that.

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      1. Canada Strong Masks N95s for All‏ @masks4allCanada 16 Dec 2020
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        Nailed it 🔨.

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      1. CovidSolutions‏ @solutions_covid 16 Dec 2020
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        What hasn't been recognized yet is that all of the demics were preceded by a very real and eons-old assholedemic... 🖖

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      2. Vix B  💙 👩‍🔬 🔬 🧪 🧫 ⚗️‏ @vixb 16 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        It's infuriating. What is wrong with people?! 🤷‍♀️ I posted something on my Facebook wall yesterday explaining the risks about meeting up over Xmas, to help my friends, to make sure they were fully informed. The response. 'We're not bad people for wanting to see our families' 😔

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      3. @JulesDellaMC 💙FBPA & FBPEGlobal  💯% ⭐3.5% ⭐ 🐝 🌍‏ @julesdellamc 17 Dec 2020
        Replying to @vixb @GidMK

        I can relate to this, one of my friends commented that I was 'captain Buzzkill' whenever I try to chat about it (mainly because I'm anxious about the recklessness of it all really) now,whilst it's an amusing nickname, the concerns are real, but people don't want to talk about it?

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      1. Becca Hart PhD‏ @WatersCrystal24 16 Dec 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @tomtom_m

        Logically, with the numerous tests that Australia has been doing and the extremely low number of positives recorded (many days they record 0 for 20000+ tests), I’d say we have safely proven that false positives are not a problem.

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      2. Ian Sharp-Smith‏ @Iansharpsmithy 17 Dec 2020
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        They are a problem, perhaps not as much as others make out. But I have real world experience of this. Please just accept that it does happen

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      3. David‏ @GwynneThomson 17 Dec 2020
        Replying to @Iansharpsmithy @GidMK

        They clearly aren’t a problem though. They might occur in a very small portion of cases but... see Australia etc...

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