Fomite

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by Fomite 11mo ago
I loved buying booster packs and trying to make decks from the janky cards in them, until people taking it all Very Seriously came along.
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by Fomite 11mo ago
Using "culture fit" to justify mass layoffs is, in fairness, probably a sign of a company's culture. Just not in the way they intended.
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by Fomite 1y ago
If this follows the "with vs. of COVID" thing, we're going to get "No, it's not climate change, it's change that which is climatic" here pretty soon.
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by Fomite 1y ago
One of the problems Boston had a couple decades ago is actually figuring out who owns those abandoned lots.
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by Fomite 1y ago
One of the things about AI generally is it doesn't "save" work - it pushes work from the one who generates the work to the person who has to evaluate it.
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by Fomite 1y ago
I'd be astonished if they didn't have acyclovir. More cheekily, all HIV medications are antivirals. What I suspect you were being told is "For a respiratory illness presenting like this, we only have tamiflu and paxlovid.&q
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by Fomite 1y ago
This. There are a lot of antivirals out there.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Perhaps, but it should be noted that sepsis detection is one of the places where ML has been applied for a very long time. A lot of these popups are built off those models.
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by Fomite 1y ago
It's not required - you just need to be a promising and interesting student. Most of the students I send to medical school get there by doing undergraduate research.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Not all doctors are - infectious diseases, for example, is fairly poorly compensated. As is pediatrics.
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by Fomite 1y ago
People dramatically underestimate how much sepsis protocols and antibiotic stewardship are in tension.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Indeed, it's likely starting to treat for sepsis could very well trigger an antibiotic stewardship alert.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Can confirm it is often very cool to be able to do this.
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by Fomite 1y ago
This is, among other things, a quirk of both statistics (models with relative effect measures are better behaved/easier than ones with absolute measures outside toy examples) and early causal inference where we underestimated just how
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by Fomite 1y ago
There's also a much less pronounced revolving door at the CDC as compared to the DoD I would argue.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Mine as well, and I was crossing SFO off the list of airports I'd connect through.
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by Fomite 1y ago
No, it's targeted against those most associated with cancer.
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by Fomite 1y ago
"this was pre- antivaxxer anxiety" - It was really, really not. Another thing to keep in mind was that the initial trials were only using cervical cancer endpoints - the association between HOV infection and cervical cancer is re
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by Fomite 1y ago
Indeed. Generally for HPV, there were modeling studies showing this was probably a good idea before trials started.
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by Fomite 1y ago
This isn't a conspiracy theory - I worked on projects around that during graduate school, and talked to my colleagues who worked on them. Cost-effectiveness thresholds are a consideration that goes into how widely a vaccine will be rol
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by Fomite 1y ago
Decisions as to whether or not to pursue regulatory approval for, example, expanded coverage of the HPV vaccine to men, or older age groups, is very commonly informed by cost-benefit calculations. I've worked on those projects, seen pr
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by Fomite 1y ago
> someone who got HPV once in college doesn't have HPV their whole life? Doesn't necessarily have HPV their whole life - time-to-clearance is somewhat variable. And yes, both slower clearance and just more infections are both
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by Fomite 1y ago
Especially ironic given how hard a number of South American countries are having eliminating the MMR diseases due to import cases from Europe and the U.S.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Humans (and most animals) are just tubes with extra bits.
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by Fomite 1y ago
To be blunt: Cost-effectiveness.
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by Fomite 1y ago
If you ever intend to be, yes.
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by Fomite 1y ago
I always thought "Cervical cancer is a just punishment for my daughter's mistakes" (leaving aside if it is a mistake) was horrific.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Teenagers are notorious for making decisions based on consequences that are decades away from manifesting.
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by Fomite 1y ago
"Why haven't you cured cancer yet?" "We have a vaccine to prevent some very serious cancers." "But it might turn my daughter into a hussy."
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by Fomite 1y ago
The evolution of who gets HPV vaccines is really interesting. At first it was young women, as vaccinating young men had a very marginal decrease in cervical cancer rates via indirect protection (which itself is a function of how many young

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