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by charbonneau 5y ago
> “Patient safety is at the forefront of our company’s joint mission and vision: to save and improve lives,” Merck said in a statement to Barron’s. I thought the company's joint mission and vision is to seek out and destroy lives. I
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by charbonneau 5y ago
I downvoted your comment because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Only rigorologists can advise whether extreme rigor should be required or not.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Not peer-reviewed. Only 13.5% of the children completed the 3-month online questionnaire. After 3 months, 30.3% of test-positives and 16.2% of test-negatives had 3+ symptoms. Possible response & recall bias. No control group for other r
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Do not ask questions. You wouldn't understand. You're not a virologist. Listen to your local authorities.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> The fact that there is a strong correlation is undeniable. > That said, epidemiology is complex, and an attempt to reduce it to one factor is not valid.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Instead of getting a 13 Pro with 512GB, I'll take the 256GB version. That'll teach em a lesson!
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by charbonneau 5y ago
A monk asked Pa Ling, "What is the Blown Hair Sword? " Pa Ling said, "Each branch of coral supports the moon"
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Why are people so outraged? The rule only applies to the plebs.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> There are those trying to publicly undermine the necessity and success of vaccinations. If we allow the defences of those who did the right thing and got vaccinated early to wane, just when new waves of infection are on the rise, we wi
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Two (in my opinion) interesting things: 1) "Phase 3 of the substudy [for booster shots], conducted in 306 participants ≥18 to 55 years of age, [...]" States are preparing to administer booster shots to high-risk populations [1].
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by charbonneau 5y ago
1933: > We want to eradicate lies, we want to denounce treason, we want institutions of discipline and political education for us the students, not mindlessness. 2021: > Amazon’s continued “peddling of misinformation” is an “unethical
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/2021/08/27/adult-... It's frankly irresponsible to say this. We are talking about what's essentially an exploratory study that needs a LOT o
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> Symptoms can begin about 2 days (but can range from 1 to 4 days) after the virus enters the body. That means that you may be able to pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick. Some peo
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> This was an ecological study in which IRRs lacked multivariable adjustments and causality could not be assessed
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FDA may authorize Covid-19 vaccine for kids based on two months of safety data(reuters.com)
7 points by charbonneau 5y ago|2 comments
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Somewhere in China: Pro-West social media campaign hits new countries, blames China for Covid
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Looking forward to the annual QaaStr conference!
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by charbonneau 5y ago
A monk asked master Jōshū "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Jōshū answered, "Mu variant"
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> quarantine facility > managed quarantine Love it.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/so-you-want-to...
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by charbonneau 5y ago
You can be forced to collect the data.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Edit: It appears the submission has been flagged. Why? Doesn't it gratify one's intellectual curiosity to see how you can re-frame situations?
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by charbonneau 5y ago
ACLU Pandemic Preparedness Plan 2008: > Unfortunately, many policymakers today believe that protecting public health requires suppressing individual rights. President Bush’s first suggestion to contain a bird flu pandemic was to call in
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Want to Enhance Civil Liberties? Embrace Vaccine Mandates(nytimes.com)
2 points by charbonneau 5y ago|2 comments
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> Health services need to make it clear that they are engaging in an open dialogue, Razai says – rather than simply dismissing them out of hand. "We have to listen to people's concerns, acknowledge them, and give them informati
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> The vaccine advisers have been under huge pressure. > Ministers have let it be known they are very keen on getting this age group vaccinated - both through their public pronouncements and privately behind the scenes. > This has c
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> The higher hospitalization rate in the 32,000-person analysis was based on just eight hospitalizations in a vaccinated group and one in a previously infected group. And the 13-fold increased risk of infection in the same analysis was b
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Let me rephrase: If you feel the need to wear a mask, do it. If not, don't. Edit: > in the prior this has high probability based on logic and the experience of many years Reality can be counter-intuitive if you put your logic and ex
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by charbonneau 5y ago
"If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of speech precisely for views you despise" - Noam Chomsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oV42OMQoE
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by charbonneau 5y ago
The very next line: > Four trials were cluster-RCTs, with all participants in the intervention clusters required to wear masks, thus assessing both source control and personal protection > In two [of the four] trials the clusters

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