rbartelme

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1. 31.▲
   by rbartelme 5y ago

   "Less severe" as in less hospitalizations and death. The long-term effects of comorbidities are still being hashed out. A fair amount of the literature surrounding pulmonary megakaryocytes, platelets, and covid, is pretty alarming
2. 32.▲
   by rbartelme 5y ago

   I guess my whole point was if they're trying to explain a mechanism, their sample size doesn't generalize to the population; even limiting it to the obese population. If anything they've shown, in their small cohort, that the
3. 33.▲
   by rbartelme 5y ago

   Preprints in biology do not carry the same weight as preprints in CS or physics.
4. 34.▲
   by rbartelme 5y ago

   1. this is a preprint, so take their results with a massive grain of salt. 2. the sample size for this is quite low. They cite number of cells in the thousands, but when you look at the number of people in the study the sample size is 3 liv
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   by rbartelme 6y ago

   Code and Data on OSF: https://osf.io/y2mdw/ It's a bit funny that this is "open science framework"...when the code sets the wd with absolute paths, and the R packages are not explicitly versioned. I wish
6. 36.▲
   by rbartelme 6y ago

   It's a big logical leap to the conclusion that this will "doom us all". It's even sillier to be afraid of sediment core incubation experiments with destructive sampling techniques. Don't you think?