Category Archives: Science And Society

Testing Efficiency

This is the way to do it.

As the thread points out, you could just do one test per household, on the assumption that if one is infected, all are or will be. Hope the CDC/White House are aware of this thinking, because it makes a hell of a lot of sense to accelerate our knowledge of the scope.

[Early-afternoon update]

Turns out there’s a rapid-test device already available in hospitals.

Are We Using Ventilators Wrong?

Do patients need oxygen rather than pressure? Are we doing more harm than good with the ventilators?

https://youtu.be/g3ka8lo_fZ8

[Via Kate McMillan, who has more]

[Update mid-afternoon]

This didn’t get much attention in comments a few days ago, but let’s try to boost the signal. I just did, on Twitter: