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by pfg 5y ago
I don't understand your argument. When we're comparing "overall death rate in a world without COVID" to "death rate in a world with COVID", we're looking at the same population. We don't need to adjus
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by pfg 5y ago
There's a reason China hasn't made this their strategy for the rest of the pandemic. It works as a stop-gap, if you accept low quality of care (read: high mortality) and if you're dealing with a regional outbreak where you ca
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by pfg 5y ago
There are all kinds of possible explanations for this. If you look at this heatmap of vaccine uptake by age and time (you'll need to select second dose)[1], you'll see that the uptake percentage is fairly uniform across all age gr
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by pfg 5y ago
Just to clarify: half-doses are only used for booster shots (following EMA recommendation). First and second shots still use full dosage.
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by pfg 5y ago
Are you referring to the same ONS data mentioned in [1]? That figure is highly misleading. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323441
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by pfg 5y ago
That age group is too wide to make a meaningful comparison without standardising for age. Less than 10% of under-18s and less than 60% in the 18-24 age group have been fully vaccinated, whereas it's more than 80% for the 55-59 group. T
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by pfg 5y ago
I'm assuming this should be https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... . Can you be more specific with your claim? The age-standardised mortality rate appears to be significantly higher for the
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by pfg 5y ago
> The risk calculus has changed and so must the response shift from the public to the private: from government to individual. I don't think it has shifted all that much in many countries. Yes, we have vaccines and better treatment.
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by pfg 5y ago
The Wikipedia articles on Virus Latency[1] and Slow Viruses[2] offer some examples. Some widespread examples: varicella zoster virus: chickenpox => shingles HPV: warts/precancerous lesions => cancer (Note: also layperson
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by pfg 5y ago
Reduction of infection/transmission is only one endpoint to consider. We also need to consider the overall effect on the quality of healthcare we can expect to receive in a situation where low vaccination rates causes hospitals to be o
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by pfg 5y ago
There's no actual written law on this, but the relevant authority (Standesamt) has to take the child's welfare into account when accepting names, and may reject them as a matter of common law. (I suppose it's possible this wo
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by pfg 5y ago
The article mentions that the influenza B virus has no known animal reservoir.
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by pfg 5y ago
The verification app needs to maintain a set of trusted certificates. More details on the trust model can be found here: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-trust/blob/main... Infrastructure for code
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by pfg 5y ago
To add a real datapoint: the QR expiry date for the certificate of my second shot is set to 360 days after I received the shot.
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by pfg 5y ago
A 0.002% risk of experiencing myocarditis due to the vaccine seems a better deal than catching COVID, which brings a ~0.3% risk of experiencing (symptomatic) myocarditis in a (to my non-expert understanding) similar demographic[1]. Many exp
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by pfg 5y ago
The third tweet in the thread you linked[1] demonstrates why it would have been a bad idea to treat those initial findings as a "major red flag". [1]: https://twitter.com/JamesCTobias/status/1399882478488
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by pfg 5y ago
My understanding is that Serious Adverse Events are not necessarily reactions that can easily be attributed to the vaccine (unlike a headache occurring soon after the vaccination), so we have to check whether these results are statistically
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by pfg 6y ago
Both studies[1][2] mention doctor's sex as a factor. "Effect of education and performance feedback on handwashing: the benefit of administrative support in Argentinean hospitals", for example, has these figures (calculated as
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by pfg 7y ago
Supermarkets will be providing surgical masks (not N95) free of charge. In places where none are available, use will not be mandatory at this point (though strongly recommended).
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by pfg 7y ago
Case fatality rate for swine flu was around 0.02%[1]. There's still a lot of uncertainty around 2019-nCoV, but most estimates appear to be closer to 1-2%. You're not wrong in that old and sick people are the affected the most, but
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by pfg 7y ago
To be clear, CAA is relevant even if you're using http-01. CAs need to check whether the CAA records of a given domain allow/forbid issuance in addition to any of the methods used to demonstrate domain ownership to the CA.
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by pfg 7y ago
> I'm guessing customer IDs are associated with e-mail addresses? They are (on Let's Encrypt's end), if an email address was provided. It's a 1:n relation, the same email may be used for any number of ACME accounts. R
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by pfg 7y ago
To my knowledge, there's no such mechanism in any of the relevant protocols (i.e. ACME and OCSP).
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by pfg 7y ago
Hash algorithms may not have been the best examples as they require client support. A better example would be something like Certificate Transparency. Currently, browsers may require Certificate Transparency for certificates issued after a
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by pfg 7y ago
Multiple reasons: 1. Firefox remains the only mainstream browser to support OCSP Must Staple. 2. OCSP Must Staple does not cover all threat models: if an attacker gains the ability to temporarily issue certificates for the victim's dom
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by pfg 7y ago
The Baseline Requirements for publicly-trusted CAs (section 4.9.1.1) require timely revocation of mis-issued certificates - either 24 hours or 5 days depending on the reason. I'm not entirely certain which is applicable here, but I&#x2
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by pfg 7y ago
Germany has a section called "Violation of intimate privacy by taking photographs" that seems to apply here[1]. [1]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
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by pfg 7y ago
Fun fact: You may find signs warning of the oak processionary moth in some of the woods in Vienna, Austria[1]. [1]: https://www.vienna.at/2018/05/eichen-wien-16-9-017650366-650...
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by pfg 7y ago
Most of these concerns are luckily not a problem in practice, I'll try to go through them one by one. > In the future I'm imagining my 2FA secrets being stolen from my browser, or being used to track me. The API does not provid
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by pfg 7y ago
I can't find a source, but my recollection is that Google developed U2F because autofill didn't work reliably enough, so many users would just paste the password manually anyway.

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