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by Fomite 4y ago
It has been, it's just slow. The gut flora of many people in the developing world is pan-resistance. Childhood diarrhea is getting harder to treat. Healthcare-associated infections are more dangerous, and the gains made against them sl
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by Fomite 4y ago
My phage boilerplate: Phage comes up a lot here - it seems to be on of HN's favorite biology topics. I have a deep and abiding fondness for phage, but they're not quite as awesome as they seem at first glance. From the perspective
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by Fomite 4y ago
They also tend to not be new families of antimicrobials with novel mechanisms of action, which is what's needed for more significant gains against resistance.
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by Fomite 4y ago
There is also a ton of room for work in modeling, simulation, data analysis, etc. The field could use computationally inclined people.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Can't Stop and Can't Stop Express are mainstays of my family's COVID-era weekly game night on Board Game Arena.
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by Fomite 4y ago
IACUCs, the animal version of IRBs, evaluate the potential benefits to both human and animal welfare compared to the suffering of the animals in question - and that a minimum of animals are being used. It's very possible the argument i
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by Fomite 4y ago
The day I quit playing WoW Classic was the day the guild I was in started implementing a system to wake up people using Discord alerts on their phone for world bosses spawning.
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by Fomite 4y ago
At several universities I've been at, HPC groups have been utterly unprepared (and disinterested in becoming prepared) to handle PII or any sort of health or confidential data.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I don't think this has been particularly ignored - in epidemiology circles, the reaction, by and large was "Huh. That's weird - I wonder why that is?" But it's also not particularly actionable . In terms of a modif
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by Fomite 4y ago
This was my experiment too - "What if it hits one of the great lakes?"
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by Fomite 4y ago
Your immune system is challenged thousands upon thousands of times a day. Clean air won't leave you compromised.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Ozone is used in some hospitals, but in fairly intense concentrations and in unoccupied rooms, generally. UV, Ozone and vaporized hydrogen peroxide are all used to some extent. None of them in ways I'd recommend for the home.
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by Fomite 4y ago
From an epidemiological perspective, one of the hardest things about evidence for critical care is that ICUs are really, really hard places to conduct studies .
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by Fomite 4y ago
A lot of medical dramas and things that shape people's perceptions portray ICUs are filled with exciting and puzzling cases that need to be solved.
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by Fomite 4y ago
QALYs are hardly non-controversial.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Based on the prompts I've tried, they've nailed "Undergrad who didn't really do the readings and is mostly just restating the prompt hoping for a C" level writing, which, in context, is pretty impressive.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Aided and abetted by putting a veneer of mathematics over the top. That is the important context for the idea of decolonizing math - that it doesn't actually take place in a vacuum.
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by Fomite 4y ago
From an application context, "Weapons of Math Destruction" is a good place to start.
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by Fomite 4y ago
The application of mathematics is, however, not objective. To use your last sentence about statistics, how you choose to handle variables, how they're put into regression models, and how those results are interpreted all have potenti
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by Fomite 4y ago
There are a staggering number of mandates and regulations around preventable medical errors. One that has been absolutely defining is CMS not compensating for healthcare-associated infections. Also, many hospitals view things like infection
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by Fomite 4y ago
Endemic has a specific meaning - that there is an expected number of cases in a given population. That's not really established for COVID-19. Also, endemic doesn't mean something doesn't matter. In much of Africa, malaria is
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by Fomite 4y ago
Indeed. In that group, it's merely...murky...rather than "This is definitively a bad idea".
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by Fomite 4y ago
No - it's protective against negative COVID-19 outcomes just if you consider cardiovascular outcomes, ignoring all the others.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Flu shots target several strains of one virus, not several viruses. There is no credible epidemiologist who wouldn't call the COVID-19 vaccines a vaccine. And there are a number of vaccines with limited reduction in transmission but
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by Fomite 4y ago
It is. With the exception of a very narrow age range of young men, the COVID vaccine is protective against heart disease alone, even ignoring all other outcomes.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Perhaps people seeking a number that would span the area codes of MD, VA and DC?
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by Fomite 4y ago
From a former tanker I know: This has proved that poorly driven and commanded tanks are vulnerable. The Russians are really bad at doing the things necessary to protect themselves. They're all buttoned up. There are a ton of pictures
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by Fomite 4y ago
One of the reasons I enjoy my field is that the assumption you're going into academia isn't baked into things. But I do wonder what these numbers will look like if the SV tech scene starts slowing down significantly. That was al
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by Fomite 4y ago
I'm not in CS, and it was neither a net negative on my life or career.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I know a number of first generation grad students who get really mad at the "unlivable poverty wages" rhetoric when they're making more than anyone in their family does.

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