Medicalidiot

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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
There's a tonne of speculation about CFR still at this time. Maybe I'm hyperbolic, but there are still ~1,500 serious/critical cases in China which is 1/3rd of all active cases. I have a feeling like the 4% CFR is high h
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What is something people not in tech should know about Covid?
2 points by Medicalidiot 7y ago|2 comments
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
>You realize most science isn’t double blind, right? That's nice, but most science isn't reproducible at scale. We need to do a drug trial for SARS-CoV-2 because we need to 1)establish efficacy and 2) establish safety for this
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
Age is the best correlating factor right now. They are prime for an outbreak demographic wise. > http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
To add to your comment, they measure calorie expenditure throughout the day but seemingly stop collecting data throughout the night (23:00 to 7:00). Their conclusion that breakfast is better isn't because they compared the data from th
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
The sample has serious flaws and is quite unrepresentative of the population: >We examined a group of 16 healthy young men (age 23.6 ± 2.3 years) with a normal body mass index (22.5 ± 1.1 kg/m2) Size, demographic, gender, a
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I got rid of smart speakers a few months ago after being enriched with everyone's perspective on this forum; tech is my hobby, not my career. I have zero regrets. It's a little inconvenient now to not be able to say "play [mu
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
SARS-CoV-2 has been demonstrated to live on surfaces for multiple days. I don't know if your phone touching the card reader or handling cash is going to change much.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I agree with you that maybe we should wait to see how this plays out before we judge their actions. I've never had a situation yet where waiting for a more lucid picture was a bad move.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
This is an interesting paradigm, but I'd assume that anything going against CDC/WHO guidelines will be removed. I had a physics professor in undergrad that still wasn't sold on the entire dark matter/dark energy phenomen
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I'm shocked at how this forum has changed its mind on COVID-19 in the past week. This makes me happy that y'all are taking this more seriously.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
Bitwarden is one of the best pieces of software I use regularly. Anecdotally, I've had awesome success with it and love the dev behind it.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
My attending went on the news to say that flattening the curve is our best bet at the moment. He's also considered to be one of the top physicians in the region. Y'all can sit here in a bubble, but the medical community has no hal
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I came here two weeks ago to downvotes and nonmedical people telling me how I was inciting a panic. Welcome to the show, folks. A lot of my colleagues are going to die soon and I'm beyond sad because of it.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
This is one of those times where it gets bad so quickly by the time you're starting to respond it's too late.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
Flattening the curve is the only scenario a lot of countries can realistically do outside of a Wuhan style quarantine.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I was downvoted here recently for sounding the alarm bells on how bad this is going to be and accused of trying to incite panic. Folks, COVID-19 is something that should be taken seriously. President Obama had great advice: "stay calm
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
All my medical colleagues kept saying this was bad. In the first cohorts of patients, 10-20% needed ICU level care. I have privy to the latest peer reviewed guidelines for medicine and had a double take when I read the initial complications
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I understand, I appreciate your feedback :)
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
Oh so we don't care about anyone over the age of 50 now? Almost no one reading this thread is going to be in the patient populations that are going to die. I'm here to say this is going to kill the people you love, who are elderly
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I'm not going to stop saying this. This looks very dangerous and we should take very precaution possible to slow transmission. All nonessential travel should be avoided, don't touch your face, wash your hands. Slowing this virus d
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I keep hearing rumblings about test kits not being where they need to be, but nothing in the news. It would be so hard to make a clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 when the chief complaints are "Fever, cough, shortness of breath". Is
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I was in the wrong here and could have worded this more tactfully. I do appreciate your insight.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
As stated elsewhere, I lacked tact towards the person who I was condescending towards and it was not my intention. But my behavior towards someone else does not mean it's ok for you to now treat me poorly. I'm not going to argue w
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I didn't even think of how many people are asymptomatic carriers when I said that number. More data, like all science, is the answer here. Honestly, someone I highly respect who is high up on the medicine food chain is very concerned t
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
I think if I had said this in person it would have sounded a lot less dismissive, but the way I typed it up came off as mean which was not my intention.
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
Let me ask you a question: what is the intention of responding to me in a condescending way? What do you get out of it? My intention right now is for people not to down play how serious this will become and that this isn't just the flu
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
Let me try to rephrase what you're saying just to understand where you're coming from. "these are cool numbers, but what's the chance that the average person is going to actually have any of these complications?". I
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
"Hey it's not as bad as people making it out" will make people complacent. People need to self quarantine if we want this to be well contained. We need people to understand that if they don't take this seriously people w
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by Medicalidiot 7y ago
^This is exactly why we should take this seriously. Even if this "isn't a big deal" that attitude will get people you love and care about sick potentially leading to their death. I'm advocating that people be mindful and

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