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by irq11 6y ago
”who's pretty infamous in the epi community for the fundamentally flawed Santa Clara antibody study - significant statistical issues, a highly flawed recruitment strategy, a side story of his wife recruiting people through a a non-app
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by irq11 6y ago
Saying something is “objectively false” doesn’t make it so. You actually have to, you know... provide some evidence . There is no such thing as an epidemiologist. The “field“ consists of a number of diverse sub-disciplines (ranging from pop
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by irq11 6y ago
Many schools are doing mandatory testing programs. That’s largely why we’re seeing school-linked “surges” in the first place.
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by irq11 6y ago
“There is such a thing as an ‘epidemiologist’,” is not a true statement at all. It’s a strange assertion, given that I just proved otherwise. Epidemiology is not one thing , it’s a bunch of practitioners of different disciplines who broadl
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by irq11 6y ago
“Conclusion: Current available data on COVID-19 myocarditis is limited. Further research is needed to advance our understanding of COVID-19 myocarditis.”
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by irq11 6y ago
The author is an economist who has spent her career researching public health. There is no such thing as an “epidemiologist”. The field is filled with people who trained in other areas, and turned their attention to health. For example, Nei
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by irq11 6y ago
5 days later: Deaths in Sweden continue to fall, per your own source.
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by irq11 6y ago
There is evidence: we’ve now had 40 million cases, and if the WHO is to be believed, as many as 10% of the world population has had it. If this “endothelial damage” were happening at even a 1% rate, there would be millions of people with
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by irq11 6y ago
So 4/26 athletes had elongated T2, in an uncontrolled study, with no pre-exposure baseline measures. This is one-half step above meaningless. The only argument they have is that the other 22 athletes had a mean T2 of 51, vs 59 for t
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by irq11 6y ago
They are not. Cases are up slightly in the past few weeks, but on par with where they were in July (after which they saw a decline). You have to be extrapolating wildly to call this a rapid increase. https://www.statista.com&#x
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by irq11 6y ago
”He is later quoted as saying that the symptoms are highly suggestive of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).” Right, which is still pure speculation. And by the way: CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion. The
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by irq11 6y ago
And what did he say? ” Anecdotally , there’s no question that there are a considerable number of individuals who have a postviral syndrome that really, in many respects, can incapacitate them for weeks and weeks following so-called recovery
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by irq11 6y ago
Can’t comment on Korean, but Japanese beginners worry far too much about politeness. It doesn’t help that the textbooks all start with a relatively stiff level of grammar, but Japanese students often become neurotic about it. If you’re a
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by irq11 6y ago
I didn’t say that, so I’m not sure why you’re making the argument to me. Belgium, Spain, the UK and Italy are indeed worse off than Sweden, and it isn’t selective to point it out. That’s all I’m saying here.
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by irq11 6y ago
The term literally came from picking cherries. Observing where an item lies in a ranked list is no more or less biased than picking a median.
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by irq11 6y ago
There is absolutely no evidence of any long-term symptom of Covid that goes beyond what we know occurs for other viruses. Stop spreading fear.
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by irq11 6y ago
It isn’t cherry-picking to say “this European country has done better than <list of all European countries that are worse>”. The selection criteria is clear and consistent: you sort the countries and take the ones that are worse. It’s
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by irq11 6y ago
” Are all the conditions listed in that table acute symptoms that contributed to COVID death? No.” Indeed. There are thousands of deaths listed which were from accidents and other issues which probably should not be counted as Covid d
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by irq11 6y ago
It is what the data says. People didn’t suddenly get cancer and heart disease because of Covid. You may believe that these illnesses were exacerbated by the virus, but that doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of the seriously
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by irq11 6y ago
FTA: ”But as Daniels’s survey awaits the rigors of peer review, it has received scant attention, in part because Ohio State has refused to make public any testing data about its athletes” So this is an unpublished, un-peer-reviewed paper
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by irq11 6y ago
No. The opposite. By the latest CDC numbers over 90% of people in hospitals with Covid have at least 2.6 serious illnesses, and mortality is disproportionately seen in the elderly and obese. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvs
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by irq11 6y ago
It is a hacker news rule that titles cannot be clickbait or inflammatory. This title unquestionably is missing critical context, and arguably crosses the line into clickbait.
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by irq11 6y ago
You don’t need to systematically screen for it. MIS is obvious and dramatic when it occurs.
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by irq11 6y ago
The title should be changed to reflect the fact that this is an incredibly rare complication. As of late July, only 570 MIS patients total had been reported in the US, per the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes&#x2
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by irq11 6y ago
My link is from the Oxford Center for Evidence-based Medicine. Yours is a propaganda website made by a guy who teaches online ML classes. Jeremy Howard has no background in science or medicine, and his website consistently mischaracterizes
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by irq11 6y ago
My link was from the Oxford University Center for Evidence-based Medicine, and summarizes the quality and outcome of all known clinical trials for masks. Your link is a website made by a guy who teaches online ML classes, has no relevant ex
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by irq11 6y ago
It wasn’t just the medical establishment a few months ago - it’s the medical establishment today. The rhetoric around masks has vastly exceeded the evidence, and asserting that people were “lying” at first is to ignore the fact that the evi
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by irq11 6y ago
We have no evidence of positive effect. We have some evidence that they’re almost completely ineffective in the hands of the general public, some that they may be actively harmful (the only RCT ever performed with cloth masks showed that
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by irq11 6y ago
I cited the evidence - the links to the WHO meta-study and the oxford center for evidence-based medicine are comprehensive, and results are as I quoted them. If you think there is additional evidence that they have not covered, cite it. “Co
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by irq11 6y ago
If you set the parameters properly, modeling shows anything you want it to show. The paper cited by the nature article does not explicitly consider masks or hand washing. It combines all measures recommended by the Mexican government, and

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