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04/19/20 11:54 AM

#231190 RE: DewDiligence #231163

Another academic in search of perfect sampling. How does he know voluntary drive through testing is not good enough? Let's say he can actually quantify that and that drive thru is not truly random - what's is then he proposing to do, break down doors and force people to take swab tests?
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04/20/20 1:41 PM

#231266 RE: DewDiligence #231163

I read those tweets and I read the paper. I see general dispersion about the quality of the work and no discussion about the reasoning behind the criticisms. The first criticism if recollection serves was the Bayes theorem was violated. The supplement materials addresses that. Here you have a crack.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/suppl/2020/04/17/2020.04.14.20062463.DC1/2020.04.14.20062463-1.pdf