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by zachguo 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-18/china-s-v... China promised to give its covid-19 vaccine to WHO for free. If the accusation is true, it's basically Robinhood for poor countries.
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by zachguo 6y ago
This is the correct explanation but got downvoted. Comments containing only one slur would be considered as spams.
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by zachguo 7y ago
It's worthwhile to track whether there's suspicious spike in number of Kodokushi.
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by zachguo 7y ago
Presumptive patients with mild symptoms have to be separated from the healthy population by moving them into quarantine hotels or yellow-zone makeshift hospitals. Or you will still see family transmissions.
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by zachguo 7y ago
Car factories can be converted to produce masks. An electric car manufacturer in China, BYD, became the biggest mask maker in 3 weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/buffett-b...
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by zachguo 7y ago
This is just a side effect of rapid urbanization. Progress in hygiene and education is not up to speed with the concentration of population. The next one will probably be from SE Asia or Africa.
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US Air Force Flew Half a Million Coronavirus Test Swabs from Italy to Tennessee(defenseone.com)
23 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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Estimating actual Covid-19 cases in an area based on deaths(youtu.be)
1 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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Trump says Google CEO Sundar Pichai called to apologize(techcrunch.com)
12 points by zachguo 7y ago|1 comments
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by zachguo 7y ago
Yup, it's not about the effectiveness of the masks, it's simply because the US doesn't have enough stockpile and capacity to produce them. All east Asian countries recommend citizens to wear masks.
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by zachguo 7y ago
"The deaths associated with the facility, according to Killian, amount to 26 between Feb. 19 and March 7. That includes 15 patients who have died in local hospitals. Of those 15, 13 have positively tested for coronavirus." https:
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by zachguo 7y ago
TBH epochtimes.com is not a legit news source. It's run by the cult group who also produces Shen Yun.
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by zachguo 7y ago
It resembles an open source annotation tool that has existed for years. https://brat.nlplab.org/ It doesn't include a ML assistant though. We have built a semi-automated annotation tool for our internal use too. ML mod
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by zachguo 7y ago
China is the first to handle it, had no idea about how deadly this virus is, and might have freaked out due to its SARS experience. Korea is next door to China, so it's alerted early on. Tiny countries like Singapore cannot survive a q
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by zachguo 7y ago
Since COVID-19 is targeting elders, I can imagine there are evil capitalists or bureaucrats who view this pandemic as a gigantic economic stimulus for the next decade. Sorry for my evil thought.
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by zachguo 7y ago
Statistics 101
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by zachguo 7y ago
Instead of the accumulated total, a better metric for showing trends is the number of daily new cases, it shows whether the infection is accelerating or not.
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by zachguo 7y ago
Thanks for sharing, color coding used by this map is clearer than circles with different radii.
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by zachguo 7y ago
If they faked the data, they would downplay it just like other bureaucracies who don't want to hurt the economy. The key is speed. As long as extensive tests and quick actions have been done, and hospitals are not overwhelmed, then the
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by zachguo 7y ago
For our team with many containers scattered around ElasticBeanstalk and ECS, K8S makes everything much cleaner.
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Gaming Bed(kotaku.com)
3 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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Online Course from WHO: Infection Prevention and Control for Novel Coronavirus(openwho.org)
2 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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by zachguo 7y ago
They f *ed up. But I don't understand why they refused to use the testing kits provided by WHO. https://www.axios.com/cdc-lab-coronavirus-contaminated-6dc97...
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Scoop: Lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated(axios.com)
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by zachguo 7y ago
This is accumulated stats, please include the number of active cases too. And the most of the accumulated cases are from Hubei. I agree the quarantine seems to be effective.
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Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths(theguardian.com)
48 points by zachguo 7y ago|16 comments
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by zachguo 7y ago
That's because the US CDC produced defective test kits and hasn't done enough testing. A tiny nation like SK has tested 30k people while the US has only tested 450+(and each kit costs a patient $3k while it's free or cheap in
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by zachguo 7y ago
You sound just like this super spreader missionary who shouted "It's not a big deal, we are all going to heaven."
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by zachguo 7y ago
Once the hospitals are overloaded, fatality would be way higher. In China, fatality rate in the epicenter Hubei province is more than 4%, while it's less than 1% for the rest of the provinces.
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by zachguo 7y ago
The latest guidelines published by the Chinese CDC claimed so too, a CT scan is required, and RT-PCR tests have to be applied multiple times before claiming a patient is cured.

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