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Just lie about the contact tracing
The university also needs to find a lab that uses stricter thresholds for what’s considered a positive test or get the lb they are using to change their threshold. The thresholds being used in other countries is much stricter than what’s used in the US. 90% of the positive PCR tests in the US are not active infections.
 
Any chance we can get Howell to transfer here
I know he's really good, but I really like their OC too. Longo came over from Ole Miss last year and helped unc go from 27 ppg the year before to 33 ppg last year. While Ole Miss went from 34 ppg with him, to just 26 last year. He has a really good system. His last FCS team, before he got the Ole Miss job, averaged 50 ppg. He's got something going.
 
When you get no love from Nashville and CMT, don't expect your average country fan to know who you are. However, it's precisely because these artists operate outside of the Nashville framework that they are interesting and good musicians. Nothing coming out of the Nashville bubblegum country machine is worth listening to.
Will be interesting to see how things change as CMT/Terrestrial Radio become increasingly obsolete. Either the “machine” will adapt to control streaming/social media, or we’ll see a Wild West of musical renaissance. Unfortunately the popularity contest of IG and TikTok may well promote even less talent than the broken music business.
 
Correct. My job is going to the Cepheid Testing Machine which has the same yield as a lab test. 95+% the Abbott one is only a 80+%. So you get the same return as a 2 day test with a test that takes 15mins to get results if you switch to the Cepheid Testing Machine.

We've had good luck at my hospital with cepheid. We were one of their initial rollout sites, as we're just a few miles away. All of the true PCR-based tests should be in the same ballpark in terms of degree of accuracy - Cepheid requires at least 250 viral particles per mL for detection, which is quite sensitive compared to the other PCR-based tests (most are in the 500-2000 copies range of sensitivity). Turnaround in real life has been on the order of 90 minutes in our ED. It also has the advantage of using two different viral targets for PCR, which should help with sensitivity. The reason that you don't see these being rolled out with football teams, etc is the need for CLIA certification. In essence, it's a real deal lab test, and requires a lab and personnel that are CLIA certified (i.e, they can demonstrate to regulatory agencies that they know what they are doing, can validate their results and keep appropriate records). The cost of the machine isn't prohibitive, but the cost of the underpinnings for being able to actually use it in an independent setting may well be.
 
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