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I agree that they're generally have good advice. But, I looked at their mask guidance, and they're still recommending that healthy people do not need to wear masks.This ignores the possibility that pe...
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show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
Did the WHO explicitly deny human transmission? Their earliest reports I saw said "we have no confirmed evidence of human transmission, but we are likely to find it". It's the second half of the sente...
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show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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His actual speech (that Reuter's reported on).https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...The key sentence that Tedros is being criticised for is:"First, there is no reason for meas...
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Taiwan data was being counted with China's. This means that many of the early safeguards Taiwan was taking to protect their country was overlooked as it's effectiveness didn't show up in the global tr...
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> [2] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared...
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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...
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How you read them is irrelevant. What's relevant is that hundreds of thousands of people read the first one, took it at face value, and decided that the coronavirus is not a threat. The WHO definitely...
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Not the only position that changed radically over time. Head of WHO in early March:> First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.> With influenza, peopl...
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The normal range of each phase is described in https://patient.info/news-and-features/coronavirus-how-quick...The average is 5-6 days to show any symptoms. That is the figure that you are remembering...
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
> The current count is ~21,000 with the number of confirmed daily cases declining for 6 days straightYes, but all of those 6 days are still higher than 7 & 8 days ago. In fact, all the days you picked...
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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Quarantine measures were widely implemented in major cities during the 1918 pandemic, but at different times in response to different catastrophes and with a very different result in deaths per capita...
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://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762028TL;DR contact tracing shows numerous cases of asymptomatic people that have introduced the disease to people near them....
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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Here are the facts as we have them.From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/ Japan admits to about 10,000 cases now, with a doubling time of about 11 days so they will admit to 20,...
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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This is just my 2 cents but according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Japan has only done 923 tests for 1M of their population. That's much lower than any developed nation. One...
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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The manual for the test used specifically warns that other coronaviruses may lead to a positive test result.> Positive results may be due to past or present infection with non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus s...
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
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The original study was on the HN front page twice; biggest thread:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272This analysis is pretty damning, and is more credible in context (the topline findings of...
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
In regards to the issue of selection bias, this is what the ad looked like:https://twitter.com/foxjust/status/1251270848075440133Quote from ad: "We are looking for participants to get tested for ...
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show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
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As best I can tell, the Imperial College report (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...) got its numbers from this study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20...
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show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
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As flawed as this is, it's in line with other studies around the world. You can nitpick and critique each one for something, but we now have a whole body of evidence using different techniques and dif...
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show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
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