"'You’ve got to be kidding me,' Ashish Jha, the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told us when we described what the CDC was doing."...https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/1263329713688215552 …
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Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states [Vermont, Virginia until recently] are doing the same. "The intermingling of viral and antibody tests suggests that some of those gains might be illusory."
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One test (PCR) diagnoses acute infection: are you sick now? The other (antibody) detects past infection: have you ever been sick? If the CDC and some states combine them, we have no idea if the epidemic is growing now or we're looking at the past. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ …pic.twitter.com/FzJv8JAlkO
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What was once one of the premier public health organizations in the world is producing uninterpretable numbers. Painful. And this is why we need solid journalism. Journalists uncovered this. A public radio station in Miami. A newspaper in Richmond. My colleagues at The Atlantic.pic.twitter.com/uNFJqpkBnO
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