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    1. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

      Alexis C. Madrigal Retweeted Alexis C. Madrigal

      So 9 days ago, I tweeted what I thought was a joke about states conflating antibody testing with their viral testing data. It was so obviously bad to do this that, at first, I didn't believe it was happening.https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/1260039815824736261?s=20 …

      Alexis C. Madrigal added,

      Alexis C. MadrigalVerified account @alexismadrigal
      I am having a recurring nightmare that some states may be reporting antibody tests *inside* their current testing numbers, without disclosing it. This would be a disaster they’d have to unwind that would misleadingly push down positive test rates quickly.
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    2. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

      But actually, it turned out it was happening in many different states. Virginia, Maine, and Vermont have already repented. There's a big fight about it in Texas. And we report tonight that Pennsylvania is doing it, too. The worst disclosure came today, though.

      7 replies 127 retweets 469 likes
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      Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

      The CDC, the global gold standard for public health statistics for decades, is also mixing antibody and viral tests in its new COVID Data Tracker. It's one of those things that is unbelievable. And yet, here we are.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ …

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        2. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          Worse, when the @CDCgov launched the new tracker, they explicitly said that they were only including viral tests. On the left, there's the info they had up through May 18. And on the right, you can see the current version of the page.pic.twitter.com/sP4zD5v1i8

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        3. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          Why is this failure so bad? No outside public health expert that we've talked to thinks it is a good idea to mix these tests. Here's what Kathryn Turner, the deputy state epidemiologist for Idaho, told me about why *her* state isn't including antibody tests.pic.twitter.com/X3odjif4z5

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        4. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          So, now the question becomes: if scientists and data people *outside* the CDC immediately recoil at the thought of mixing viral and antibody tests, then ... why did the CDC do this? For me, it is very hard to believe that the lifelong civil servants *wanted* to do this.

          12 replies 178 retweets 697 likes
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        5. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          Alexis C. Madrigal Retweeted Erin Petenko

          The most generous possible interpretation is that the CDC maybe didn't know that the states were mixing their test results. That's what Vermont claimed.https://twitter.com/EPetenko/status/1263138001879797762?s=20 …

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          Erin PetenkoVerified account @EPetenko
          Why was Vermont including serology tests in their official testing numbers? They say they didn't know they were -- they were just publishing numbers from testing sites that were adding em in. Via @GovPhilScott press conf
          7 replies 82 retweets 346 likes
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        6. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          But if you work for the CDC and you know the actual answer, like I said before: alexis.madrigal@protonmail.com.

          2 replies 93 retweets 418 likes
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        7. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          And also, some local reporters/pubs deserve huge shoutouts: @MelLeonor_ blew open this story with her reporting in Virginia. @texasobserver first reported Texas was doing it. @asuozzo got Vermont. And @toomuchme got the CDC on the record this morning.

          7 replies 98 retweets 531 likes
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        8. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          So, one lesson you could draw from all this: Subscribe to your local news(paper). @COVID19Tracking would not work without so many local reporters pushing so hard for transparency in their cities and states.

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        9. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          Another lesson: As they say in science and technology studies, Raw Data Is An Oxymoron. (Cf. @namleti) That doesn't mean all data is bullshit. It just means the data production process needs to be rigorous, ethical, and transparent.https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/raw-data-oxymoron …

          6 replies 110 retweets 459 likes
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        10. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          Finally, these antibody tests probably account for *some* of the discrepancies that we were at a loss to explain in our @COVID19Tracking white paper comparing the state data with the new CDC data: https://covidtracking.com/blog/tracking-cdc … So, I guess v2 of this paper has begun.

          6 replies 47 retweets 290 likes
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        11. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 20 May 2020

          A coda! Georgia, too, was lumping in antibody tests and, of course, local reporters like @NicoleCarrWSB, @wmariano, and @FitzTrubey were all over it: https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/latest-data-lapse-inflated-georgia-virus-test-count-000/2RG89mkuryApRMdQzblMgP/ …https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/new-questions-arise-about-georgia-covid-19-testing-numbers-real-infection-totals/5QRZAGH7WBDFNMQIKG54UQYB7I/ …

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        12. Alexis C. Madrigal‏Verified account @alexismadrigal 23 May 2020

          If you’ve been following this antibody test reporting saga, here’s a new tidbit. Missouri’s health department says that the CDC directed them to report in this way. 😐😑🤨 https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article242957701.html …pic.twitter.com/gX2pcpluDQ

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