criticaltinker

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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Is this malice or stupidity? Does the FCC stand to gain anything by jeopardizing the health of the general public? Genuinely curious as I don’t know much about the lobbying or incentives that would lead to such a situation.
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It’s beyond theory at this point - there is strong clinical evidence that fasting and dietary changes will significantly alleviate rheumatoid arthritis. To anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend exploring the literature connecti
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Great points. It’s worth adding that SARS-COV-2 is spread primarily through the air via extremely tiny droplets (< 5 μm) [1]. Breathing, coughing, and sneezing produces infectious aerosols which can remain suspended in the air for hours.
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The advances enable a magnetic field strength that would otherwise require 40x more volume using conventional technology - doesn’t the reduced volume imply the plasma temperature would also increase significantly? Or is the magnetic field s
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Preliminary data from Israel suggests that immunity acquired through natural infection may be more robust to variants like delta, compared to vaccine induced immunity. See this preprint and discussion from a couple weeks ago [1]. [1] https
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Vaccination has been shown to induce an immune response including T cells [1]. However, vaccination induces a slightly different immune response compared to natural infection [2][3] . These differences may account for variation in effective
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At this point it is widely recognized that viral evolution is undermining the effectiveness of the current vaccines at preventing infection (~91% to ~66%) [1] and symptomatic illness (~95% to ~65%) [2]. Still, the benefits of vaccinatio
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Fair enough, here are some high quality RCTs that provide the strong clinical evidence you're looking for. [1] Ivermectin in combination with doxycycline for treating COVID-19 symptoms: a randomized trial https://pubmed.ncb
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I cited numbers reported by the CDC who reviewed VAERS reports and determined that a subset met the CDC’s own criteria. I accurately transcribed facts from an official CDC document, and even linked the source, nothing more. Do you really
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Great question, I'm only aware of one paper that somewhat answers that question in a limited sub-population (college athletes). To truly answer that question we would need perform cardiac magnetic resonance imaging on a large populatio
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Thanks for the feedback and the citation, that was an interesting read. Here are a couple more good papers I skimmed through today while looking into this topic. I agree on the "not likely to immediately kill a bunch of people" po
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Previous discussion from 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224 (248 comments)
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Care to elaborate? Is there any scientifically backed rational for confidently “predicting” there will be no health risks caused by this contamination? No one here has provided any citations yet.
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According to the CDC (as of August 18th) there are at least 742 cases of myocarditis and myopericarditis associated with vaccination, potentially upwards of ~1,300 [1]. For males age 16-17 the reporting rate of myopericarditis after 2 doses
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Can you provide any citation supporting this claim? Are there longitudinal studies proving that these particles do not pose a health risk?
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> they don't believe it posed any additional health risks > So likely nothing to worry about at scale > About 500,000 people have received shots from the three suspended Moderna batches Why are you so confidently advocati
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> the amount of people suffering myocarditis and other vaccine complications is in the double-digits This is not true, according to the CDC (as of August 18th) there at least 742 cases of myocarditis and myopericarditis associated with
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> there's no over-the-counter cure All of those medications can be prescribed prophylactically ( early in the symptomatic phase) by just about any clinic. I'm not advocating against vaccination, just pointing out that early tr
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> there's little/no treatment for the infection resulting from this virus. This is not true. Since the beginning of the pandemic front line doctors have been successfully reducing hospitalization and death through early treatme
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Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh https://www.nber.org/papers/w28734
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> I think this method is less attractive to training acceleration scenario The proposed hash based encoding function is not differentiable, so it doesn’t appear this method can be used for training at all. I’m not aware of any hash funct
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Previous discussion from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224 (263 comments)
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You don’t need to go to the ED / ICU, just about any clinic will write you a prescription. In fact early ambulatory treatment is one of the best ways to avoid straining healthcare infrastructure. No cutting in line necessary.
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Yes it’s extremely important that people are aware of the benefits of beginning treatment early . Waiting for a positive test isn’t even strictly necessary. Apparently some people here find that to be disagreeable? I would love to hear the
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> Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per mi
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> A retrospective analysis of 791 intubated patients with COVID-19 has found that, after adjustment for pertinent demographics and comorbidities, those treated with melatonin had a markedly lower risk for mortality (HR: 0.131, 95% CI: 0
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> the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health This is yet another paper contributing to a growing body of evidence suggesting that collectively and scient
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TLDR: The underlying mutational rate of SARS-CoV-2 may be substantially higher than previous estimates which were based on assaying the rate at which RNA changes appear in the population. > In SARS-CoV-2 we find evidence for common intr
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Summary of paper cited in OP [1]: > The most potently neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 — including those in clinical use and dominant in polyclonal sera — target the spike RBD. Mutations in the RBD that reduce binding by antibodies
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by criticaltinker 5y ago
Unlike drawing a card from a deck, you don't need to choose drugs randomly. You can use existing safety and efficacy profiles to narrow the search - and in the case of SARS-CoV-2 you're likely looking for combinations of categorie

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