badfrog

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by badfrog 6y ago
> some portion of exposed people may never develop detectable antibodies. Interesting. Would those people still develop some form of immunity/resistance?
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by badfrog 6y ago
I don't think that fully explains it. There are plenty of European cities of similar density to NYC that haven't been hit nearly as hard. Naples Italy, for example.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> I still can't get my head around why NY has suffered so disproportionately. Compared to California, NY locked down much later and did it in slow, incremental steps.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> New York City had the highest positive rate at 21.2%. The potential good news to come to light is that the death rate may be far lower than some estimates, at 0.5%. How do they get to 0.5%? According to NYC data if you include "pr
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by badfrog 6y ago
> The closer we get, the better it is. Having 21% "immune" leads to far different outcomes than .1%. It depends on how long the immunity lasts. If it's permanent, this is indeed great. If it lasts only a few months, this 2
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by badfrog 6y ago
> a huge source of unnecessary risk through nonsense like this What is the risk illustrated here? A trading firm losing a few million dollars isn't a big deal in terms of the overall global economy.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Do you think things will get three times as bad in Louisiana than they are now If people there stopped all preventative measures, yes it would get much worse than 3x.
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by badfrog 6y ago
If we're going to talk about the total number of people who have been infected, wouldn't it make more sense to use the overall test rate?
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by badfrog 6y ago
> year-to-date, about 1300 people died each day of the flu. That seems impossible. CDC estimates 61k flu deaths in 2017-2018 and 34k in 2019-2020: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html That is no
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by badfrog 6y ago
What exactly do you mean by worst-case here? The actual worst case would be if nobody took any precautions, which almost certainly would result in more than 0.18% of the total US population dying.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Underlying illnesses include Diabetes, Lung Disease, Cancer, Immunodeficiency, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Asthma, Kidney Disease, and GI/Liver Disease That's a whole lot of people left out of your number. A quick google sug
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by badfrog 6y ago
> less than 40% of the people tested give a positive. FWIW, Queens and Brooklyn (Kings county) are at 50.7% and 48.3% positive tests respectively. https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Would you rather fly in business class comfort for 8 hours or with less comfort for 4 hours? I'd take the 4 hours any day. At that point, it's reasonable to take a trip to Europe for a long weekend.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> We don't know how many people were tested. > We don't know how many people tested positive. Both of those are in the article.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> What I've looked at so far are IC admissions. Where do you find that data?
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by badfrog 6y ago
Here's some info on that from US FDA: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/investigational...
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by badfrog 7y ago
I think it's just unnecessary. Kneading helps gluten develop, but the same thing can be accomplished by letting the wet dough sit out for longer.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> It reported that 0.04% of 10-19 year olds would probably require hospital care—as would 1.0% of people in their 20s, 3.4% of people aged 30-39, 4.3% aged 40-49, 8.2% aged 50-59, 11.8% in their 60s, 16.6% in their 70s, and 18.4% of thos
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by badfrog 7y ago
Also, the risk of getting COVID from food is very low. You're more likely to get it from people near you standing in line. > According to multiple health and safety organizations worldwide, including the CDC, the USDA, and the Europ
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by badfrog 7y ago
A bag of uncooked rice doesn't help somebody who's homeless or has had their gas/electric shut off.
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by badfrog 7y ago
> Going to some store and lining up is very demoralising thing. Perhaps, but also it might be just annoying enough so that everybody who really needs the food is able to get it, and people who can afford food don't take it. If that
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by badfrog 7y ago
Is this just a smaller, sketchier Lending Club?
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by badfrog 7y ago
I've also been surprised at how much of an improvement headsets with microphones are over built-in laptop mics.
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by badfrog 7y ago
Where did they go? Are there 80k hospital beds in Wuhan?
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by badfrog 7y ago
I actually can't tell whether evaporation is good or bad. If a droplet evaporates, does the virus die or does it float freely through the air?
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by badfrog 7y ago
This is kind of interesting. Check figure C.2. The behavior of droplets depends on size, but they all either evaporate or fall to the ground within 4.5 seconds. Knowing this has made me feel better about better about walking a dozen feet be
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by badfrog 7y ago
> This is interesting, i had always thought it was binary, either you get infected or you don't IIRC, some vaccines work by exposing the person to a tiny amount of virus so that their immune system can "learn" how to fight
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by badfrog 7y ago
Do we have any idea how this changes outdoors? I could see it being worse because the wind spreads virus farther or better because it gets diluted quicker.
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by badfrog 7y ago
Isn't this virus transmitted via droplets, not aerosols?
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by badfrog 7y ago
> How do you do physical distancing within your home? Eat meals alone? Don't share cups/plates? Wear gloves for doorknobs? I feel like there's currently no solution for this. I don't think you really need to. Say the

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