ImaCake

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by ImaCake 7y ago
Can someone more experienced with clinical work give their thoughts on the sensitivity and accuracy of this test? The group's paper reports: >sensitivity was 88.66% and specificity was 90.63% My understanding is that this test will
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by ImaCake 7y ago
My limited understanding of this is that IgM antibodies appear against viral infections quite early in the infection. So this could still be useful for identifying people with active infections. Correct me if I am wrong!
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by ImaCake 7y ago
>The test proposed on the website is NOT currently approved for use in Australia I can see it right there in the table. So it's definitely approved. On the self-test bit, of course not, even the manufacturer stresses this is for pro
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Yeah, I am very skeptical of extrapolation from deaths to get total cases. Just looking at China's numbers province by province reveals that the death rate varies quite a bit. Hubei has a very high mortality rate compared to the prov
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by ImaCake 7y ago
>apparently I'm conditioned now to feel sick after looking at exponential graphs. If it helps, all the exponential graphs of Covid-19 are just logistic curves in disguise. China and South Korea have already shed their disguises. Ita
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by ImaCake 7y ago
>Woah there. Don't be so hasty to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Agreed. I may absolutely hate the documentation I have to complete as a microbiologist in a GMP company, but there is a reason for it. I just wish that GMP was
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by ImaCake 7y ago
There's always libgen if the book you want is behind a paywall. Like it's cousin scihub, it is very easy to use, fast, and has most of the books you could possibly need. Considering the awful practices of most scientific publisher
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Well everyone gets the common cold!
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by ImaCake 7y ago
It wasn't until this latest outbreak that I realised just how pervasive the ideas of pandemic are in the creative works I consume. One of my favourite books is "The Reality Dysfunction" which deals with a pandemic of possessi
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by ImaCake 7y ago
It occurs to me that there is a whole supply chain of these companies for youtubers and podcasters. Firstly, the content creator uses one (or many) of a selection of traditional and web-based tools to produce content not possible three deca
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by ImaCake 7y ago
>This is the interesting case where anecdote really does become data I still disagree with this, although I somewhat agree with your sentiment. The anecdotes I have seen range from extremely mild to nightmarish. A large fraction of those
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Wow, thankyou for an excellent answer to my question :) I have spent some time in biological science research and your comments about grants holds very true. The result is that a lot of money is funneled into inefficient laboratories produc
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I think this explains a bit of the fanboy love for SpaceX. It's the energetic little guy versus the corrupt lethargic vampires.
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Can you elaborate on these dis-incentives? Are they systemic or individual? I work in veterinary medicine production and I am a little concerned by some of the features of quality control in my workplace. Basically, if a mistake is made, th
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Once you step back and read a little political history, it is remarkable how little sunlight there is between the two major parties in the USA and also in my home country of Australia (labour and liberal). Arguments like yours really expose
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I experience the same problem as a fairly novice programmer who doesn't always know the right term to stick into DDG/google. >It's gotten to the point where I almost always automatically bang out to Google for those types
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Thanks for sharing! I have been building a collection of useful statistics links for Covid-19. This singaporean one takes the cake for detail - a case by case breakdown and network graph, amazing! Here are some nice resources I've come
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by ImaCake 7y ago
The same could be said for my biology education. But it never seems to stop those biologists publishing papers from invocing obscure acroynms and phrases without definition.
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Yes, labs don't synthesize their own primers. They buy them from suppliers. The kind of primers you would use for SARs-Cov2 would be about $10-$20AUD (similar for USD) a vial and be sufficient for several hundred reactions (maybe a hun
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by ImaCake 7y ago
If you have a fever it is probably best to avoid exposing yourself to others anyway. There are plenty of other bugs similar to COVID-19 that can kill the vulnerable and there's no need for you to help spread them! Stay home, chill out,
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by ImaCake 7y ago
>Well-equipped state or local labs can use these—or come up with their own—to produce what are known as a “laboratory-developed tests” for in-house use. But at the moment, they’re not allowed to do that without FDA approval. Wow this is
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I can't recommend iNaturalist enough. You can learn about the world around you by uploading sightings of any plants and animals you see all while contributing to a rich dataset for scientific research. I regularly upload birds and occa
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by ImaCake 7y ago
The data is uploaded to gbif[0]. Where you can download it for free! 0. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Thankyou. Nothing like well displayed data to shine sunlight on everyone's paranoia :)
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Virologists seem pretty happy to say that the virus is not man made. [0] It is amazing to me the crazy theories circulating about this virus. Does anyone remember similar stories from Zika or Ebola 2015 outbreaks? 0. http://vir
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I know a guy who went to work as a post-doc at Harvard. He left behind experimental samples of human blood that were unlabelled , which I had to inform his former supervisor about. He also had a number of other professional failings. The t
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by ImaCake 7y ago
A lot of the links you provide have alarmist titles and big claims and confusing evidence. Which is strange since the twitter authors are clearly well educated virologists/epidemiologists. But the style of language makes it difficult f
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Instead of reading the news you can try reading books about current and past events. History books of all stripes will inform you more than the goldfish memory of newspapers ever could. I like that I pay for a book. It makes the transaction
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by ImaCake 7y ago
For weather tracking you could try windy.com or your local weather service forecast. Both are more engaging and beneficial than other ways of getting weather news!
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by ImaCake 7y ago
> impact of technological advancement upon the global climate It's worth remembering that our technology makes the world less habitable for us but that might not be the case for other organisms. I have little concern for the longt

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