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Except this data is also lagging by three weeks, depending on what antibodies are being checked. Some deaths today have come from infections in April, so the net effect could be a wash.And where are ...
show context + On: Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have C
show context + On: Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have C
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You can derive that from better data. From https://covidtracking.com/ we can see that 57k people have been hospitalized in New York State so far, with 15k still in the hospital. Of the 42k who aren'...
show context + On: Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have C
show context + On: Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have C
> If amazon copied all your proprietary data, you would almost certainly never notice, no criminal law would apply, and you'd have a hell of a time proving it in a civil suit.For a thought exercise, l...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
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How do we know what is best for us? What and who should we believe? It kinds of remind me how Copernicus was banned centuries ago despite now we know he was closer to truth than anyone else. If we liv...
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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> a very smart bloke with an honest-to-goodness PhD in a virus-related fieldHow do I embolden text on HN? When a person with a PhD is talking about something related to their PhD it is imprudent polic...
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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From Lichtenstein's 2008 paper [1], mentioned in that article as the start of it:> Ultrasound has long shown its utility for plain organs.6 Although the lung has traditionally been excluded from its r...
show context + On: Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Agai
show context + On: Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Agai
Looks like the breakdown in provision of care will happen before the end of April after all.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1252836409406152709?s=21> NHK confirms that coronavirus-appropriate hospi...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
"We took the measures that mitigated a disaster, therefore the disaster was never going to happen" is an idiotic opinion.A virus that spreads from close proximity with infected people, and y...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
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https://i.imgur.com/dJ7kHch.pngIt's pretty sloppy to show surge capacity on the same graph as total hospitalizations, not active active hospitalizations....
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
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We were mostly lucky to have about four times as many ventilators as France or Italy.The numbers I read in two different sources: Germany has about 20,000 ventilator places, while France, Italy, Spain...
show context + On: Latest EURO MOMO data shows excess all-cause mortality in so
show context + On: Latest EURO MOMO data shows excess all-cause mortality in so
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Interesting article. In late March I built a simple SEIRD model for a few US states with python. It was very difficult to estimate R0. R0 is essentially Beta/Gamma, where Beta^-1 is is time between co...
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
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There's a couple problems with this:* deaths are also likely to be under reported (although, I agree, probably still better than the total unknown people who haven't been tested)* a decreasing number ...
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
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In the UK we have two death counts.The one that's used most (the one that appears every day) is here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c9...That is people who test positive fo...
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
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If you look at test results you probably won't learn much. There will be far fewer tests than cases and most cases will never be tested. It seems more likely that you'll just be measuring some other e...
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema)....
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
The thought occurred to me as well, I got a strong sense of "playing with fire." However, viruses have a very high mutation rate as it is [1], so I'm not sure how much difference it makes.Bt...
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
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That would be just as shallow. The issue isn't brevity, it's genericness. Are we really making the assumption that every study with a small sample is worthless, and that our reflexes know better than ...
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
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Somehow the hivemind decided a few years ago (it would be interesting to trace how and when) that every study with a small sample size is worthless and merely mentioning sample size is enough to cance...
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
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Because they didn't intend to use chloroquine as a way to reduce the immune response to cytokine storms.They intended to use it to prevent virus replication in the cells at the early stages of the imm...
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
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Nobody seems to be talking about the actual reason Chinese doctors found chloroquine (and HCQ) interesting and it has nothing to do with it's immunosuppressing effect:1) Chloroquine (and HCQ) is a zin...
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
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