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Is Online Coronavirus Screening Useful?

Posted on March 30, 2020March 29, 2020

A number of websites are currently offering online coronavirus screening. These aren’t a full-scale test. The online sites read symptoms that you enter and then use artificial intelligence to determine how likely it is that you’re positive for the virus. But there’s a bit of a problem. An investigation by a pair of reporters from STAT reveals that different websites give different responses to the same set of symptoms. For example,…Continue Reading

COVID-19 and DMTs: What’s Happening If You Have MS?

Posted on March 23, 2020March 22, 2020

What’s happening if you have MS and you’ve tested positive for COVID-19? How will the disease affect your disease-modifying therapies and your MS? How will the DMTs affect COVID-19? Dr. Barry Singer, (@drbarrysinger), a neurologist who directs The MS Center for Innovations in Care in St. Louis, has posed that question to his Twitter followers. And the responses that Singer has received, from around the world, from people with MS who…Continue Reading

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