endogui

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by endogui 6y ago
Health and food supply are both parts of the economy, unless you trust the Feds to set up rationing. Which is not to defend the managers who are pushing for things to open when they don't have front-line exposure.
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by endogui 6y ago
Unlike other countries which announce fatalities on the date they become known to authorities. Sweden updates its fatality chart retroactively on the day each person actually died. Since it takes a long time to get/process death inform
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by endogui 6y ago
It's useful to think that way, until you add more options: G: 5% chance one of your parents die, preparation costs $X H: 3% chance you die, preparation costs $Y. What at what values of $X and $Y do you prepare?
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by endogui 6y ago
Korean testing is revealing a fatality rate of about 2% over all cases, with about 8% requiring hospitalization. You are off by an order of magnitude.
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by endogui 7y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to compare new cases vs active cases? At the end of this plot you can see China's new cases increasing again, but the number of total cases is so large that the x axis doesn't move.
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by endogui 7y ago
The murder rate isn't growing at 30% day-on-day.
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by endogui 7y ago
Most "asymptomatic" people will show symptoms within two weeks, so aggressive cluster/contact tracing works. South Korean local goveenment staff are following the credit card use, transit use, and other daily movements (CCTV
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by endogui 7y ago
The Italian number (75%) comes from testing everyone in a village of 3000 people. The Chinese number (1%) comes from testing everyone who comes to hospitals and maybe their family members. I would guess that the Chinese sample was selected
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by endogui 7y ago
SK has also instituted widespread work from home, closed schools, and people voluntarily wear masks and cancel events. Daegu was a ghost town for at least 2 weeks after patient 31 was detected, because each citizen decided to minimize activ
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by endogui 7y ago
That level of population flow and population density are not as special as you are making them out to be. The transfer station nearest Seoul's most recent cluster (discovered 7 days ago) gets about 25% more annual traffic than King&#x2
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by endogui 7y ago
China has classified masks as strategic assets and is only exporting them to select countries.
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by endogui 7y ago
As of last night the number of cult-linked cases was "more than half". So > 3500. It turns out that in addition to worship services teice per week a lot of the cult members save money by living together. So even though worship
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by endogui 7y ago
If the West is going to eschew the Chinese route, then they need to embrace the Korean route: agressive testing and contact tracing, mandatory quarantines for suspected contacts, bans on public gatherings, massive PSA campaigns about hand
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by endogui 7y ago
In shortage situations, one mask reused properly is better than no mask. I work at a medical center in Korea and we are under the following instructions: 1. Place masks for reuse in a specific place to avoid cross contamination. 2. Treat th
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by endogui 7y ago
In late January, Chinese media widely reported "news" about an American flu "epidemic" to distract from nCoV. However, the US CDC reports pneumonia and influenza deaths as a percent of overall mortality on a weekly basi
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by endogui 7y ago
> the form the tweet posted explicitly said ... > the form says he authorized ... You seem to be repeatedly missing the point: he claims to have never seen nor signed this form. The "signature" is decidedly pixellized. The
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by endogui 7y ago
Well, here he is claiming they didn't sign that document at all: the signature was copied from elsewhere.
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by endogui 7y ago
In Korea (not China), but here it is common to get PCR assays for infections when the cause is unknown. People are also tested to determine the type (type A influenza) when showing flu-like symptoms. So if someone comes in with severe flu-l
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by endogui 7y ago
I found that for me it depends a lot on the tilt of the seats: when I flew Southwest, the seat was ramrod-straight, and I am not able to relax. On Asian carriers, seats are more comfortable, and I was even able to fall asleep. It didn'
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by endogui 7y ago
> Second, figure out how many clinical/surgical encounters a physician in training needs to truly be competent when they complete their training. This seems like the sort of thing that should be widely studied, but I can't fin