Updating for #coronavirus testing at MassGeneral/ Brigham and Women’s, UPMC, and BioReference Laboratories

Our last update on U.S. #COVID19 testing capacity. As high throughput systems come online this week, testing capacity will substantially increase nationwide. Any limitations will be the testing supply chain (reagents, swabs, sites, etc) - not platforms for conducting testing.

As high throughput capacity continues to come online, track the regulatory status of these tests and others: 360dx.com/coronavirus-te…

We have updated our list of where you can provide assistance to different states, and what they need, to help in #COVID19 fight.

For select city level case tracking data, visit aei.org/covid-2019-act…

THREAD: In our report on steps to reopen America, we reference the need to be able to test at least 750,000 people a week. That number is being discussed. Here is more clarification on how we derived it, and what it means. 1/n aei.org/research-produ…

Wishing my former FDA colleagues a happy, healthy holiday. FDA's professional staff have been working on a historic mobilization to lead a robust response to one of the worst public heath emergencies in modern times. They're making landmark progress on testing, tracing, treatment

#COVID19 testing in the U.S. continues to ramp up; and in hot spot states like New York, New Jersey, Louisiana sharply exceeds the testing density in other countries.

THREAD: We're launching a new tool today to provide county-level insight into COVID infection risk, as assessed by local positivity rates measured against historical infection rates in an area. From the data, we derive a Local Risk Index within each county aei.org/covid-2019-act…

Black and brown Americans are disproportionately impacted by #COVID19 and its economic toll. Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸 explains why that might be →

My new book on #Covid19, what went wrong and how we can prevent the next pandemic, is available for pre-order. I look at the systemic woes that exacerbated the crisis, and how we must view public health preparedness through the lens of national security. harpercollins.com/products/uncon…

KN95 masks - like Utah Governor Spencer Cox has just made available to school districts that choose to use them - can provide a high quality option that can be worn more comfortably than an N95 mask while still affording more protection than many typical cloth or procedure masks

Was eagerly waiting for this - just arrived today. I started reading and am already deeply engaged. (Hope it’s not a spoiler, but you’ll be delighted to know that ‘airflow and filtration’ show up within the first 7 pages…!! 👏👏👏) #UncontrolledSpread Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸

I interviewed former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸 for The Former Washington Post Magazine about his new book about covid: ‘We remain almost equally vulnerable to threat from the next pandemic’ But he also has reasons for optimism. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/maga…

From Alex Tabarrok's review of Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸's book. wsj.com/articles/uncon…

Great article summarizing a worthy read by ⁦Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸⁩ that any current and/or future White House policy/ health official must have to understand policy failures and opportunities. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/maga…