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Screening healthcare workers could serve early warning system for future viruses
- teachingassist 6y agoIf your model suggests that healthcare workers' risk of early exposure to contagion is the same as the general population's risk, then your model is wrong.
- astrea 6y agoWhere's your study that proves this?
- dragonwriter 6y agoFor any contagion causing acute symptoms of significant concern, healthcare workers probably have a higher than average risk of being exposed before a novel contagion is identified, and that still holds if you move the window back to before the appearance of a distinct symptom cluster of concern is characterized.
- whateveracct 6y agoWhenever I see comments like this, I always wonder..is this a person speaking from experience & expertise? Or is this just a software developer?
- teachingassist 6y agoYour cynicism of me is reasonable and justified. I urge that you continue to hold this cynicism for press released scientific papers (in general), and in particular for papers published in PLOS ONE, where you can pay to publish almost any content.