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Just some numbers:In Sweden, which only has a voluntary lockdown, over 30% of covid19 dead come from elderly homes[0]. Swedish elderly care is highly focused on keeping the elderly independent (at hom...
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
HN
The data that NYC publishes daily is super interesting since it breaks down cases/deaths by race, gender, age (group), and presence of underlying health conditions [1].The gist of it is that the major...
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
It will probably be significantly higher than 60%, since COVID-19's R0 without lockdown seems to be pretty high. The CDC has estimated it at 5.7 [0]. Herd immunity threshold = 1 - 1/R0, so the thresho...
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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Per https://covidtracking.com/data#state-ny there have been 57103 hospitalizations in the state (not city, so not quite the same population), of which 15021 are still hospitalized. So that's 42082 ca...
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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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
Good news. Herd-immunity is growing.Also, this means that the death-rate is far lower than reported. And this is nice too. Maybe we can save people by starting the society again.In other news, we see ...
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
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-r...I mean there were articles like this all of march. I'm not saying the WHO or CDC might of said something different but lets acknowledge t...
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
I disagree. It's simply too early to make that determination.The Spanish Flu had a estimated infection fatality ratio of >2.5% (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article). As another comm...
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
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The city itself actually estimates a total of 15,411 deaths so far the the figure is already closer to 0.9%, and there are still people dying in the city every day so will likely end up a bit higher (...
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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If this study is accurate, then 1.8 million NYC resident are infected. So 15 411 deaths (as of today, including 5 121 probable deaths) suggests COVID-19 has a fatality rate of MINIMUM 0.9% which is in...
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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Is it? I read the original comment as saying there were significantly different symptoms based on the transmission method. Even assuming that the transmission method results in a significantly differe...
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
Your comment doesn't address my point. See this Twitter thread, https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1251999295231819778specifically this comment:https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/12520080403...
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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> Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions.> Less than 40 of the 3,864 contestants were average size on just five of the nine dimensions and none of t...
show context + On: When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)
show context + On: When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)
> 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
This comment is based on a misreading of the very testimony you're referencing. As quoted in this CNBC article.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt..."Nate Sutton, associa...
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
> because buyers can see those items side by side when shoppingI can't speak for Costco, but that's not really true in a conventional supermarket though.It's pretty well known that food manufacturers ...
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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I think this is just a special case of "online communication". It's illegal for the phone company to arbitrarily suspend your service for what (legal things) you say over the phone.It's legal for Twit...
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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> The WHO advised against the public wearing masksNope. Your article is actually about the UK's government's advice and lumps in the WHO. Here's a WHO publication from 30th of January 2020 [0] that ad...
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
> Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that "The flu is worse"That wasn't their position, in fact they instructed other nations to prepare. The R0 and mortality rate they...
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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