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by h2hq 5y ago
This comment misses that false-positive and false-negative rates are wildly different. The rapid tests are still quite useful because a positive test is very reliable and saves you several days of waiting for PCR results. Perhaps the test r
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by h2hq 5y ago
I think the point is that rapid tests are performing significantly worse now on Omicron than they were for prior variants.
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by h2hq 5y ago
https://iamanovice.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/tcid50/
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by h2hq 5y ago
To be clear, there are plenty of virus vaccines that are lifelong. It is unfortunate that the covid mutates as fast as influenza, but it was not a given at the beginning of the pandemic. Many scientists claimed that enveloped viruses were
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by h2hq 5y ago
Animals also get covid - so there's little hope of preventing future variants at all. The majority of covid infections on Earth are not in humans at all.
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by h2hq 5y ago
Antibodies are not long term, ever. They always degrade in the blood system. ...but that's also not the only type of immune response that a vaccine generates. Vaccines cause the creation of b-cells, which retain the memory of this vir
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by h2hq 5y ago
It cannot be randomized for a vaccine trial since the participants are all people who want to be vaccinated.
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by h2hq 5y ago
Your comment does not address the contradiction in the parent comment. The contradiction is that two media outlets are stating opposite statements from the same source with regards to whether the 4th booster raises the amount of antibodies.
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by h2hq 5y ago
The primary reason we are fixated on faster-than-light travel, is because our lifespans are so tiny compared to the travel time to other stars. This speaks more to our organic limitations than it does for the necessity of FTL travel. An AI