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by NoPie 5y ago
https://archive.md/EWC7T
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Allowed? It will spread regardless of what we do. It will not significantly overwhelm hospital either.
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Impressive. How come they died from kidney failure shortly after re-establishing contact? My guess is that it was due to salt. Their kidneys had adapted to live without salt and now with getting salt again they could not cope.
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The use of "males" is common in medical literature. This probably is an evidence that the report is prepared by a medical writer instead of a journalist which gives more credence to its veracity. By itself this is a very boring ar
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Well, the idea is probably not to gain weight in the first place. Once you gain weight it is very hard to lose it. Many people manage naturally to keep perfect BMI by eating healthy diet and having enough exercise or by just moving around.
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It could be true that obese have 4 times higher death rate. Note that obesity often comes together with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases which increase the risk even more. Vaccines are effective, they reduce death rate approximately 10
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Diet and exercise will work much better to prevent obesity than any medicine on market. It is just that long-term adherence to these things is very much determined by culture and will be much harder for Americans compared to Japanese, for e
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14 years old article is a good reason to take note of it as it shows it is not just some fad but important long-term issue. I don't think the issue itself is controversial. I was taught at university that our life expectancy is determi
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Not in the case of current covid vaccines and variants.
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I agree with the article. While we don't know yet, how the drug will work in practice, if it is as effective as the results in the clinical trial, it can considerably change the course of this pandemic. One issue would be high cost. Ne
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Not necessarily. The immunity fades with time, so it is possible that you could be infected again. The residual immunity might be strong enough to prevent symptoms however. Each such exposure can boost your immunity. Nevertheless, influenza
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Our science is not that good. Basically you want a virus that really is a vaccine. The current vaccines are far from perfect because apparently we don't know how to make them better. Expressing such a vaccine as a contagious virus woul
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>> Well, health is more valuable than any money. Not really. The healthcare system in every country has to make decisions how much is QALY worth for in monetary terms.
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This didn't age well ;)
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100× is definitely too optimistic. Even the original studies with alpha variant and shortly after vaccination was less than 95% effective, i.e., only 20 times. It seems that the current value is closer to 40% reduction in covid transmission
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I find this less convincing. Europe is missing Sweden and Spain. Obviously, there might be reasons but this omission is reducing its predictive power. The rest are simple truisms – vaccines work but not enough; boosters can help especially
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Israel study shows that previous infection provides higher immunity. I haven't seen any other studies showing the opposite but not many of them are done. Most studies compare previously infected unvaccinated with previously infected va
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by NoPie 5y ago
Very interesting hypothesis. Will it be proved wrong? We now know that the vaccine effectiveness fades very quickly that after 6 months the booster is required. But how AZ compares with Pfizer vaccine? It is possible that the studies that t
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It looks very relevant. Current vaccination guidelines do not say anything about potential issues for people with heart problems. It also mentions that this may be related to some adverse reactions we already know such as thrombosis.
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Charitable explanation is that they are afraid that any discussion will inflame passions and can cause more rioting and further destruction and damage. I don't think it will happen because this case sends a signal that protecting prope
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Probably CDC asked Google to not show testing centers for the same reason that “people might misuse this information”.
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Scott Alexander thinks that ivermectin might work in places where people have a lot of worm infections: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t... Somehow I start to suspect that masks might have a
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by NoPie 5y ago
Really fascinating article. I hope that it holds true (less than 50% chance). It would mean that Japanese have genetic makeup that protects them from delta variant.
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Thanks, tell that to Gov. Newsom: https://old.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qr34sz/...
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We don't even know why covid has a seasonality. Obviously it has a physical cause but the interplay of all factors is so complicated that no one can really explain why peaks come and go, and at different times in each place.
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This article didn't convince me at all. For example, there is no clear proof that masks help to reduce infections. It is unclear why but risk compensation could be a reason. Diet soda – it clearly hasn't reduced diabetes incidence
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It was not only hard, but it was also pointless in many cases. Spain did not allow children to go out for about 2 months even though there was a little reason to do that because outdoor activities pose very little risk. No one from policy m
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According to the WHO, 32 million people have died of HIV since the beginning of the epidemic. Deaths from COVID so far have been estimated to be around 5 million. And this doesn't even begin to consider the differences in age distribut
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Irresponsible country was Latvia (EU country) who barely managed to vaccinate only half of its elderly so far. The government was completely inefficient, they did not even allowed to send a letter in Russian, in a country where nearly half
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It would be great, if the certificate was enough to show at the boarding gate to be able to travel. However, this is not the case – the countries still require to fill long poorly developed forms with a lot of private information. Some of t

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