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by Exmoor 6y ago
The headline may have changed at CNBC, but it now more accurately says "FDA panel recommends approval of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for emergency use" (emphasis mine). The next, and final step, will likely happen pretty quickly: &gt
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Nobody made the obvious comment that in ten years Reddit would still be dominated by dumb jokes and film quotes.
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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hill
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Yes, it's non news dressed up as news because it feeds into fear. Ideally people would read the story, come to the same logical conclusion you did, and disregard if they aren't in the small group of people who know they have this
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> Pre-Alpha test THIS IS NOT SOFTWARE! I cannot believe I continue to see this complete ignorance smugly repeated on HN. The vaccine has undergone three phases of testing including large scale release. It's been "baked" si
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It would be very interesting to know what impact this will have on these preventing these types of violent rapes and murders in the first place. On one hand, if you've seen the progress made in the last few decades you'd have to t
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>To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May, when interim results from its Phase I trial demonstrated its basic safety. I was worried this article was goi
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I was really into flight when I was a kid. Sometime before I was a teenager my mom found Chuck Yeager's autobiography at a garage sale and thought I might be interested in it. Who would've guessed that the Edwards AFB test pilots
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URL is double posted in the link. Should be this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/trump-covid-vaccine-pf... Archive without a paywall: https://archive.is/xUs4j
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Long-time eBird user here. This is probably the best introduction I've ever read to how eBird impacts the culture of birding. Doesn't really fit here as well as the articles focusing on the data, but very well written and accurate
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I did some game testing when I was a teenager (paid in free software). A couple nights playing a game that either sucked or just wasn't my cup of tea was enough to show me that playing games was a lot better than working on games. An
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From reading a few vaccine threads here, people are very invested in the idea of vaccines being tested for long periods of time on many people before they feel its safe. That said, this seems more useful for vaccines for rarer diseases wh
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> Hawaii is offering to pay for round trip flights to Oahu for a select group of US remote workers willing to relocate temporarily . Looks like it's only temporary relocation, so presumably workers would be residing in hotels or ot
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My spouse and I would love to temporarily relocate to Hawaii and work remotely/vacation for a while. That said, last I checked, current travel conditions make this difficult. Also, we would almost certainly not choose Oahu.
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I'm struggling to the find the primary source for the statistics, but they've basically been the same short-term side-effects as you might get from a flu shot, but at slightly higher rates and and severity: https://www.
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The mechanism for how these vaccines work is pretty straightforward, well understood, and quick acting. They trigger your immune system to be aware of a threat and train it to defeat that threat. This is something your body does fairly cons
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> Specifically, if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. About 4,000 strokes. Over 9,000 new diagnoses of cancer
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After Krakatoa erupted in 1883, the first living thing found on the island was a spider, which almost certainly sailed over the ocean using this method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#Botanical_studies https:
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I'm really sick of seeing the media either pretend to be willfully ignorant of the way science works for the sake of clicks or just be stupid in the first place. Until they have something akin to study data they're going to tell y
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Turns out that catching COVID by touching surfaces is pretty low in the first place: > The estimated risk of infection from touching a contaminated surface was low (less than 5 in 10,000) https://www.medrxiv.org/content&#
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I would be remiss not to mention that Sixteen Tons was a Merle Travis song, recorded for the bona fide classic album[0] Folk Songs of the Hills. Both songs are classics, but the Travis version deserves to be heard. https://www.y
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Non-Paywall link: https://archive.md/aFkJW
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Whether or not it would have been a good idea to loosen the approval process aside, accelerating it would likely not have had much of any effect on saving those lives. The bottleneck is production capacity. As I understand it Moderna and Pf
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I'm more than a little suspicious of a bunch of Computer Science folks running some data through their machine learning tool and then trying to tell the vaccine makers they should change their recipe because of it. Even assuming their
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I'm not sure I'd take every grocery encounter at face value. Her whole story seems fishy. The China connection makes sense, but her testing positive 2-3 months after contacting the virus seems dubious at best. I was really sick in
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Engineer. My roles have been very broad and coding has been only a small portion of it, so engineer fits better, IMO. Honestly, one of the proudest moments of my career was getting promoted into an 'engineer' title. In my mind, en
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When I was reading it in the spring I was skeptical for exactly those reasons, but it quickly became clear with even the smallest bit of research that it was well accepted the Vitamin D deficiency was linked with worsened effects from commo
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I must admit I was completely ignorant of the effects of Vitamin D deficiency on common illnesses such as the flu as well as how unbelievably common that deficiency is for people living in much of the northern hemisphere. Will it cure COVID
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The presumption here is that we could have been vaccinating people en masse since sometime in spring. However, I do not believe large-scale production of an mRNA vaccine was possible at that time. This does not seem to be the case. My under
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The issue here is that there's just not data on how contagious the small percentage of vaccinated people who contract COVID may be. Realistically, all the indications we have so far are that there is some correlation between how much y

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