Amarok

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by Amarok 7y ago
Get a blood test. If CRP raised and lymphopenic, likelihood of ARDS requiring ITU admission is higher. This can happen very quickly after the first week, so I'd put pressure on the doctor to keep me hospitalized.
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by Amarok 7y ago
If you're really desperate for a test go to the hospital and say you feel breathless. Dyspnoea is a subjective symptom but no doctor worth it's salt would just ignore it without investigating further.
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by Amarok 7y ago
TCID50 gives you information on infectivity. Not as good as LD50 though https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4861875/
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by Amarok 7y ago
Suggests 6x less risk of infection. Potentially 55x if taping to achieve better fit on the nose. Their protocol for fit testing is confusing and I suspect wrong. Inert particle test should be disregarded. The machine measures between 1.2 an
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Protection afforded by surgical masks against influenza bioaerosols(hse.gov.uk)
2 points by Amarok 7y ago|1 comments
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by Amarok 7y ago
He looks alright to me
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by Amarok 7y ago
NE as in North East? I'm in the same region at a small academic center. Saw 3 suspected cases recently, all started acyclovir within 1h in addition to the antibiotics, while awaiting lumbar puncture.
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by Amarok 7y ago
Oh orthopods, they're a riot in the Uk. They won't have much use for a portable MRI. In trauma all they see is the bony bits where CT and XR are king, anything else is someone else's problem. A true ortho emergency is rare an
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by Amarok 7y ago
My experience as well is that there's a relationship of trust between radiologist and surgeon that a trained algorithm cannot replace. Same reason why AI isn't a threat to sales people for high priced items. I'm actually doin
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by Amarok 7y ago
It's used in specific emergencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340458
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by Amarok 7y ago
It has applications in emergencies[1].Speaking for the UK, every stroke center will want one. Dirt cheap as well. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340458
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by Amarok 7y ago
Some devices are safe to scan at lower intensities and for less time, but it's the radiologist who check on that, so not my expertise.
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by Amarok 7y ago
For a change, I can contribute something to HN without being out of my depth:) Background: I'm a doctor with 3 years experience in acute medicine. AMA Clearing some MRI misconceptions: 1. It's indicated ASAP in specific emergencie
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Microfluidic portable PCR analyzer for faster SARS-CoV-2 diagnoses(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
2 points by Amarok 7y ago|0 comments
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by Amarok 7y ago
Given the short to long term treasury bond yield inversion in 2019, I'm preparing for a recession in 2021 by keeping 10% cash and clearing off all debt. I also implemented a higher risk strategy when I rebalanced my portfolio at beginn
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by Amarok 7y ago
Could you explain a bit more how you tag sections?
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by Amarok 7y ago
Demagoguery has a better track record than science at influencing people's actions. For example, Dr Semmelweis who literally prooved hand washing saved lives. He was mocked and committed to an asylum by his colleagues, where he ironica
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by Amarok 7y ago
You're comparing both systems using watthours of energy expended, so mentioning enthalpy of water vaporization is unnecessary and confusing.
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by Amarok 7y ago
I see an age where our orbital space is so full of waste we can no longer leave the planet
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by Amarok 7y ago
Also women have lower body temperature than men.
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by Amarok 7y ago
Paracetamol is even better and more commonly available
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by Amarok 7y ago
I was storing 500 euro bills under my bed during the 08 crisis. When I moved to the UK, Barclays was the only non shady place that accepted them.
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by Amarok 7y ago
azair.eu for Europe and Asia
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by Amarok 7y ago
Do we have accurate figures for the mortality demographics?
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by Amarok 7y ago
I believe opioid addiction is not well understood among general practitioners. Here in the UK, they accept as common sense that your patient won't get addicted if they're taking opioids for pain. Similarly for ADHD, when I was sta
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by Amarok 7y ago
^[a-z0-9_-]{3,15}$ The username reference doesn't match 16 characters as claimed
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by Amarok 7y ago
This article is 2 years old and rather misleading. The battery electric vehicle itself is much less efficient than both the fuel cell electric and conventional vehicles. This is because of the weight of the batteries that need to be transpo
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by Amarok 7y ago
This is just plain desinformación, hydrogen has an efficiency of 70%, which means a loss of 30%, and yes this figure is improving by "throwing money at it"
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by Amarok 7y ago
Perhaps lithium battery manufacture is improving rapidly because we're investing more on it. And your video has one huge logical fallacy "assuming energy comes only from Green and renewable sources" If that's the case th
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by Amarok 7y ago
anedoctally, my dandruff cleared up after I switched from cold showers to lukewarm

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