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https://abc7news.com/amp/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-h...Not a study but just another anecdote. Using zinc this time round rather than azithromycin....
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
Eric Weinstein also has a podcast of his own, the most recent episode of which features his original lecture detailing the Geometric Unity model he discussed on Rogan (though even the dumbed-down vers...
show context + On: What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Ka
show context + On: What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Ka
This isn't really accurate - independent retailers have quite the advantage right now because they aren't constrained by centralized fulfillment. The reason Amazon has shipping delays is because:1) Am...
show context + On: Amazon Isn't the Only Shop Online
show context + On: Amazon Isn't the Only Shop Online
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Some restaurant suppliers have opened their online store to individuals. I can't speak for California, but in New York City we just shopped yesterday on baldor[1]. For most items the minimum quantity ...
show context + On: Amazon Isn't the Only Shop Online
show context + On: Amazon Isn't the Only Shop Online
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You didn't finish the comparison for cases for capita.Bouches-du-Rhône has ~3% of the French population and ~4% of the covid-19 hospitalizations.The department of Paris has ~3% of the French populatio...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
This morning we had:France ex-IHU Marseille/AP-HP: 79160 cases, 7527 dead, mortality rate 9.5%IHU Marseille/AP-HP: 3005 cases, 33 dead, mortality rate 1.1%France doesn't use HCQ consistently yet. Didi...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
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Isolation (physical distancing) would cause this. Flu doesn't have a long incubation, and doesn't survive as well (AFAICT, not a medic) outside bodies.Isolation should reduce all virus transmission an...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
> There is absolutely no evidence that HCQ or HCQ/azithromycin would have any effect on seriously ill patients with viral pneumoniaIt's supposed to be taken BEFORE you become seriously ill and develop...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
Note that some cancers kill you very fast and other kill you in a very long time, so you have a chance of die from another cause.If the study in a small group proves that the miracle drug is ineffecti...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
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If the results are so good it would be impressive. But it will be necessary to take a look at the data. Dollar to doughnuts they have a horrible methodological mistake, like a bad classification of th...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
Every year about 295-650k die of respiratory issues with flu as a complication. That means on average a 30-year-old knows about 200 times the people who have died of the flu then Covid.So you must cer...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
Do you have links to data for excess mortality? I'm struggling to find any localised data.Here is country wide mortality data: https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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Most likely lack of data. NYC has data with deaths vs comorbidity but I haven't seen it for anywhere else: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d......
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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Link to the actual paper:https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2820...Estimates are in the last column of Table 1 (page 5).These seem roughly in line with CDC estimates for the US, s...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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My basis is looking at Spain and Italy which seem to be past their peak, recovered % is rising.https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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> Where did you obtain the figure of 21% outcomes being death?https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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You are one of already three commentators saying this (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22785738 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22785762), and similar concerns arise every time numbe...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
The tone behind chiefalchemist's comment is not appropriate ("Communist China" intends to evoke specific emotions, which doesn't have a place on hackernews).That said, while the citation for...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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These numbers seem much more realistic versus the previous doomsday predictions of 3%. To compare this to base rates, the age adjusted base rate for deaths in the US in 2018 was about 0.7%[0]. Dependi...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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The US death rate is the sum of a bunch of time-lagged exponential curves. For instance, CA is 2 weeks after NY. Numbers from individual states are more informative (but have similar issues for big ...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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