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by omar_a1 7y ago
I fail to see how explaining that, "Yes, you need to know medicine to practice medicine, or people will die" is considered being contrarian. Would you rather just revel in ignorance? So here's my idea: stop treating invasive
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by omar_a1 7y ago
Because the difference between letting someone die under inappropriately-applied ventilation versus just letting someone die is the occupation of a perfectly good ventilator. One that could be used to actually save someone. If you're i
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by omar_a1 7y ago
No, it's that I'm aware that "ventilator bootcamps" would be a resounding failure that would kill more people than it saves. Going from zero to medical professional - not a doctor, just someone who can perform invasive m
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by omar_a1 7y ago
> Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good No, it's because medicine has a very low fault tolerance, and requires a large body of technical knowledge to even understand what needs to happen for you
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by omar_a1 7y ago
Obviously because being an ICU doctor isn't something hard like writing code. Fewer buttons on a ventilator! /s But seriously, the amount of people on here trivializing modern medicine isn't helping matters. Granted, neithe
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by omar_a1 7y ago
> The argument is, basically, “I believe in science, but not during a crisis”. I guess that saying about foxholes and atheists isn’t entirely wrong. An important factor here is also the unfettered, obnoxious arrogance that seems to be ub
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by omar_a1 7y ago
My guess (only a guess) is ozone would work fine. It would probably be as effective as the UV treatment. And, again, all the caveats about ozone not being an empirically-evaluated sterilization method.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing about the densely-populated Gaza Strip. They're already severely lacking in medical needs.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
What was described above wasn't "US Administrative Bureaucracy" so much as "this is how busy labs are run." It can be challenging to understand that if you're coming from a small research lab where QA/QC b
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by omar_a1 7y ago
If you're basing your sample throughput calculations on instrument throughput (1000/day), you're implicitly assuming that instrument run time is the limiting factor, and the rest of the operations can match it. I'm also
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by omar_a1 7y ago
Whoops, so used to the "it's so easy" comments on here that I missed that part.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
And setting up a NN is easy, you just need a laptop. In general, if you find yourself using the phrase "you just need (to)..." Then you should probably take a step back and consider the actual work that goes into "just"
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by omar_a1 7y ago
Yes, and middle school students learn to write "Hello World!" HTML pages. So, by that logic, any web developer is interchangeable with a middle schooler.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
> Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale And you don't think this test needs to scale, with the millions of people needing to be tested?
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by omar_a1 7y ago
It's not the liability here, it's the fact that cutting corners means you now have more people walking around that your lab said was fine, that aren't, and vice versa. If someone gets a false positive then, following recovery
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by omar_a1 7y ago
You're saying a lot of things here that don't make any sense. > I'm afraid I'd have to strenuously disagree that cutting corners on QA/QC [...] would be unacceptable. > I would _never_ dismiss controls as an i
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by omar_a1 7y ago
> Why keep such detailed records? Barcode it on the way in, run the test, and report the result - forget demographic data and any other paperwork, whoever ordered the test can deal with that. Detailed records and redundancies ensure you
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by omar_a1 7y ago
That kind of proves my point. Even with the bad press, landlords are gunna landlord.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
(Disclaimer: No medical training. Former analytical chemist.) Rapid test kits like these are your best bet if you want to go the DIY route. The only caveats I have are: 1) Unsure of the amount of blood required for this test. If it's j
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by omar_a1 7y ago
I doubt it's the lab techs that are in short supply. It's probably the consumables and reagents that go into the test that are out of stock. Lab procedures scale pretty well (to an extent - not the scale of the pandemic). Lab work
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by omar_a1 7y ago
They've been defying the order all week, and were specifically told by the sherrif's office that they are non-essential, but continued to run. I think they've only just started to come around, after a visit from the sherrif&#
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by omar_a1 7y ago
I'm not saying the courts and police will be evicting people if ordered not to, I'm saying I doubt the landlords will be happy about their income suddenly getting slashed. And furthermore, believe that they will still threaten evi
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by omar_a1 7y ago
Yea, having lab experience, I think as long as the equipment, reagents, and consumables are all available, lab techniques scale fairly well. You might be running your scientists ragged between installing the new instruments, keeping all the
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by omar_a1 7y ago
I'm more concerned about whether or not we can keep food, utilities, and housing running that long. If the front-line workers in the essential jobs are the most vulnerable to exposure, and the economy has screeched to a hault, can we k
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by omar_a1 7y ago
In SF at least it isn't really being enforced unless they absolutely have to. Based on the news Tesla has been the biggest offender so far. Plus people can still legally walk around outside, so the most tangible enforcement would come
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by omar_a1 7y ago
I just can't imagine an SF landlord passively resigning themselves to not getting paid rent, apocalypse or not.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
That's the silver lining here. With sheriffs and legislators not enforcing evictions, we can pretty much squat in our apartments until the situation changes if rent money completely dries up. The landlords are out-numbered by the tenan
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by omar_a1 7y ago
In practice it would look something like "Test every last American [with insurance coverage]" plus the usual assumptions about people without medical insurance not existing.
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by omar_a1 7y ago
I don't think that's accurate, as Flow Injection Analysis is a staple in any analytical chemisty lab. They're also common in next-generation autosamplers. GC, IC, and Combustion/Oxidation Analysis, or really any type of
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by omar_a1 7y ago
Medical devices have a lower fault tolerance and higher need for traceability because manufacturing defects mean lost lives. In your example using rusty tools for brain surgery is a good analogy, as it highlights the false dichotomy you&#x2

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