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by mulvya 5y ago
> In WW2, the US was able to fight two major wars simultaneously, and supply the allies, and move all that stuff overseas. An incredible achievement, only possible from free markets and the wealth produced by them. The US nationalized ma
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by mulvya 5y ago
> On the other hand, I’m not willing to fly to India just now. Not as much out of fear of Covid but because, if I happened to have, say, a heart attack, I clearly would be unable to get a hospital bed or an oxygen mask. It's very re
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by mulvya 5y ago
Sorry, I confused it with CanSino.
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by mulvya 5y ago
> Be careful with your second study, because they looked at those that developed/still had antibodies post-infection. Kinda like saying those that developed a good immune response developed a good immune response. True. It depends o
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by mulvya 5y ago
A majority of the vaccine doses used in Seychelles is the Sinopharm. It uses a human adenovirus as its viral vector. One aspect that was mentioned early last year in Derek Lowe's roundup is that most Asians have existing antibodies aga
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by mulvya 5y ago
Protection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is similar to that of BNT162b2 vaccine protection: A three-month nationwide experience from Israel https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255670v... (Pfize
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by mulvya 5y ago
The overall estimate of heritability of 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum concentrations attributable to GWAS common SNPs is 7.5% from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02662-2
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by mulvya 5y ago
"This study was not designed to evaluate the effect of acute changes in vitamin D status (ie, from supplementation) on prevention or treatment of COVID-19. One randomised trial and one quasi-experimental trial have provided evidence fo
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by mulvya 5y ago
> the current very low 'recommended' limit. Yes. See 'Why the IOM recommendations for vitamin D are deficient' authored by two of the committee members who drafted the first IOM recommendation in 1997 @ https:/&
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by mulvya 5y ago
The study did not actually measure Vitamin D levels. " But further investigation was needed because observational studies couldn’t establish a causal link between blood vitamin D levels and COVID-19. The challenge in establishing a cau
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by mulvya 5y ago
Innumerably many valid statements of the form 'if P then Q' can be generated. But dissemination of one by a govt. scientist in a prominent medical journal, however, indicates that they think it likely enough to be true.
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by mulvya 5y ago
> From what I understand, HIV is fairly difficult to transmit, requiring an exchange of infected body fluids. Fauci didn't think so in 1983. "But if ''nonsexual, non-blood-borne transmission is possible, the scope of
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by mulvya 5y ago
Real world experience doesn't show that. Protection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is similar to that of BNT162b2 vaccine protection: A three-month nationwide experience from Israel https://www.medrxiv.org/content&#
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by mulvya 5y ago
Cross-border leakage with Bangladesh? Possibly. With Pakistan? Hardly. All of these countries require a recent negative test prior to arrival. The Central Asian countries show inflection at pretty much the same time, barring Uzbekistan whic
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by mulvya 5y ago
Correct. If it's not eradicated, herd immunity leads to endemic equilibrium. Given animal reservoirs, it's not likely to be eradicated.
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Elevated blood glucose as a primary risk factor for the severity of Covid-19(medrxiv.org)
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by mulvya 5y ago
That's the magnitude of new detected infections. Pakistan has conducted 1/4th tests per-capita compared to India. 1/6th for Bangladesh. So I don't think there's much to see there. I'm comparing the inflection p
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by mulvya 5y ago
The wave isn't primarily due to loosening of restrictions or slack in behaviour. It's due to, for a lack of a better term, environmental factors. Look at the countries in the vicinity of India; they all show similar rise at around
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by mulvya 5y ago
> The level of air pollution is relatively the same now as it was last year for the first wave though. No, they are not. See table 1 of https://www.orfonline.org/research/air-pollution-delhi-filli... - it hit a low
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by mulvya 5y ago
At this stage, it's evident that the primary mode of SARS-Cov-2 transmission is through aerosols, not droplets nor fomites. The level of air pollution affects the duration of suspension of bioaerosols as well as the performance of the
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by mulvya 5y ago
The CFR in Mumbai is half that of earlier waves. See https://postimg.cc/Xpn7hthc ----- Delhi looks more severely affected, likely due to its air pollution. See https://aqicn.org/city/delhi/
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Protection of Covid infection is similar to Pfizer vaccine in Israel(medrxiv.org)
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by mulvya 5y ago
But there is another factor, only recently mentioned in Indian media. The fear factor causes many of those with means to insist on hospitalization. This article talks about it in the context of celebs [1] but I've seen it among my rela
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by mulvya 5y ago
The CFR in Mumbai, so far, is less than half of the first wave. But due to the rapid rise in cases (elsewhere; Mumbai appears to have peaked on 7 Apr), there's a crunch in beds and especially oxygen.
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by mulvya 5y ago
> The licence allows AZ to make a profit -- after the pandemic. After could be as early as 1st July 2021. https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-astrazene...
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by mulvya 5y ago
> Let's also say that it is somewhat effective against the variant so the performance of the vaccinated immune system is actually better than the naive immune system. This is begging the question. > Because of the selection effec
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by mulvya 5y ago
The article uses the term COVID-19 sloppily. It says, "The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for COVID-19, 14 days or more after they received one or two doses of the vaccine" and &quo
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Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection(cdc.gov)
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by mulvya 8y ago
If there are people who need an answer, and people happy to provide that answer ... what is the downside ...? Turnover/churn. If a Q/A site allowed basic questions then the site would be flooded with them since the population of
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by mulvya 8y ago
Generates a histogram of pixel values in a frame and then, in normal mode, calculates a (weighted) measure of the variance in pixel values. in diff mode, calculates a (weighted) measure of the variance in differences of pixel count between

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