nanis

45 ms·

421.
by nanis 5y ago
Also, we do not yet have a good idea about the real world levels of reduction in "death/hospitalization/severe illness". Currently, in the United States, known deaths from Covid19 among people stands at "eight point
422.
by nanis 5y ago
One thing they got wrong is the fact that upcase(downcase('İ')) is not reliably 'İ' and downcase(upcase('ı')) is not reliably 'ı' without extra assumptions. That is, Unicode is missing (1) Unicode Cha
423.
by nanis 5y ago
Good economists know. > To learn from the mistakes, and institutionalize better responses would mean to admit there were mistakes. One would think the grand blame-Trump-for-everything narrative would allow us to do that, but the mistak
424.
by nanis 5y ago
Oh, but, dontcha know, that's why you need umpteen tracking apps installed.
425.
Ask HN: What is a low cost laptop/tablet for teleconferencing?
2 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
426.
by nanis 5y ago
Accompanying blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/06/08/why-we-petitioned-the-f...
427.
Petition from Coalition Advocating for Adequately Licensed Medicines-Caalm [pdf](downloads.regulations.gov)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
428.
by nanis 5y ago
> Despite the reference to “six month safety and efficacy” in the preprint’s title, the paper only reports on vaccine efficacy “up to six months,” but not from six months. This is not semantics, as it turns out only 7% of trial participa
429.
Does the FDA think these data justify the full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine?(blogs.bmj.com)
17 points by nanis 5y ago|3 comments
430.
Pfizer and BioNTech's new vaccine brand name, Comirnaty (2020)(fiercepharma.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
431.
by nanis 5y ago
> ... as an indictment of vaccines. Nothing here is an indictment of vaccines per se. However, it is legitimate to have concerns over a process the rules stated at the outset were thrown out, possibly for personal profit and political mo
432.
by nanis 5y ago
> Shortly before the FDA approved Vioxx in 1999, drug maker Merck launched a study it hoped would prove that Vioxx was superior to older painkillers, because it caused fewer gastrointestinal problems. Instead, the study would eventually
433.
by nanis 5y ago
>> And Pfizer doesn't "make" 1.9b of 100m doses. True. > Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine generated $7.8 billion in revenue in the second quarter[1]. Note that with Pharma, there is a fixed cost up front. After that, t
434.
by nanis 5y ago
> I saw some conspiracy theory ... What conspiracy theory? StatNews[1]: > Pfizer and BioNTech speed up timeline for offering Covid-19 vaccine to placebo volunteers > Pfizer and its partner BioNTech plan to offer their Covid-19 vacc
435.
by nanis 5y ago
> The types of data varied between portals, including personal information used for COVID-19 contact tracing, COVID-19 vaccination appointments, social security numbers for job applicants, employee IDs, and millions of names and email ad
436.
by nanis 5y ago
You can't iterate without a plan. You need to know where to begin and where you are going and have a rough idea of how to get there. You can't plan without iteration: Early decisions have to be made under much uncertainty and poss
437.
by nanis 5y ago
> (Note: Hospitalization may or may not have been due to COVID-19.)
438.
by nanis 5y ago
> Are you claiming this is good or bad? Neither. In April, the rate of death from Covid19 among those fully vaccinated against Covid19 was 0.9/million. By August 9, it was at 7.5/million. CDC used to provide updates every Frida
439.
by nanis 5y ago
Right, now go and downvote an accurate explanation of how a baseless accusation ("you claimed eight million deaths") is wrong. Also, just saw this: > Net implies you are counting positives and subtracting negatives. That is inc
440.
by nanis 5y ago
The control arms were busted. We touched upon this some time back. If you don't want to dig through the whole messy thread[1], I would recommend "Placebo-Controlled Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines — Why We Still Need Them"[2]. [1
441.
by nanis 5y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275509
442.
by nanis 5y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275509
443.
by nanis 5y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275509
444.
Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to Covid-19 restrictions(smh.com.au)
43 points by nanis 5y ago|13 comments
445.
by nanis 5y ago
Thank you. That's informative.
446.
by nanis 5y ago
Cool animation. I would be interested in seeing it by latitudes of localities (not aggregate state level).
447.
by nanis 5y ago
What proportion of the early wave of deaths in Covid was due to premature intubation, in your guesstimation? Thank you.
448.
by nanis 5y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252026
449.
by nanis 5y ago
Is that why the CDC has not updated the stats on breakthrough hospitalizations/deaths? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre... https://archive.is/yaPLs
450.
The CDC Only Tracks a Fraction of Breakthrough Covid-19 Infections(propublica.org)
3 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments

More ›