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Should race be a variable in medical algorithms?
Link. It’s not obvious. ACE inhibitors, for example, are not first line therapy for Black Americans.
Ethics of Coronavirus Vaccine challenge trials.
Link. Rescue remdesivir?
“internal polling showing a softening of support among suburban voters, especially women without college degrees”
Link. WWCW is why Black Democrats chose Biden.
Korea protects child pornographer.
Link. Very light sentences by western stabdards.
NOAA allowed to say seas are mysteriously rising and will food coastal America.
Link. “The question of what is causing seas to rise is, she said, “a little different.”
Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19.
Link. “black race was not independently associated with higher mortality”. At least once admitted the black group did bit better than white group.
Reviving damaged human lungs by connecting then to healthy pigs.
Link. THIS.IS.WILD. Did not see that one coming
Incorporating heterogeneity into models of COVID immunity.
Link. I doubt this is a new discovery. I suspect it was considered in 90s. It could and should guide pre and post vaccine polcy.
“Finder’s error of more than 139 TB is most probably because it’s using the wrong integer type in its calculation.”
Link. Oops.
Post about breast cancer, get Facebook ads for scam treatments.
Link. The ad-funded Internet is an inevitable disaster.
Go outdoors, better masks, easy quick testing.
Link. Most sensible McCardle I can recall. Obvious by late March. Biden will do this.
“White House salvo appeared aimed at undermining the public’s trust in the renowned immunologist [Fauci] in hope that Americans will be more inclined to believe Trump’s far more optimistic version of events as the November election marches closer.”
Link. Trump can’t fire him.
Curbsider CME for non-internists through VCU Health
Link. Best thing I’ve seen in months.
“Government experts said they have been surprised at the speed with which federal workers have internalized President Trump’s antagonism for climate science”
Link. This isn’t Trump. It’s the entire GOP.
Understanding COVID: “about 4 percent of the world’s population, around 349 million people, would require hospitalization if they became infected”
Link. Age and conditions. Sounds about right. Of those about 1/8 to 1/10 will die, and almost all will have weeks to years of significant disability.
Best macOS/Mac OS X? Snowie.
Link. If I could run Aperture on Snowie in a VM …
Tennessee did some good things, but the people did not cooperate
Link. Sounds like core problem was Tennessee voter.
PPE crisis: “The United States remains dependent on overseas manufacturers and fly-by-night middlemen who have jacked up prices sevenfold amid soaring global demand,”
Link. This is GOP and esp McConnell – as well as Trump.
“We need Disk Utility to be able to list all snapshots stored on a volume, and their current effective size, together with a command to delete those which are purgeable.”
Link. The basics. Carbon Copy Cloner helps for now. Big Sur uses lots of disk space.
Trump dumps corrupt buddies into USAID jobs.
Link. Money for nothing.
“Today, Americans are only allowed in a few Caribbean islands and the Balkans”
Link. What’s wrong with the Balkans?
Gravel biking explained
Link. Bikepacking so much better than “touring”.
“In the late 18th century, one in five Londoners contracted syphilis by their mid-30s”
Link. Riddled with STDs. Huge suffering. How did that change culture?
“rumors of COVID parties in other states, most recently from Alabama, have been shared by officials and turned out to be false.”
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“I am leaving the party because I believe that it has been so infected by Trumpism that it no longer can serve effectively as the host to traditional conservatism”
Link. Worshippers of Baal can stay.
“The IPO bubble”
Link. Ends badly.
“Republican Senate leaders are suddenly very interested in pushing a new round of COVID relief and fiscal stimulus. But they appeared fixed on wanting it to end immediately after the November election”
Link. Sabotage of Biden presidency begins.
Government’s slowmo collapse: counter-terrorism.
Link. GOP has won its war on government. Idiocracy achieved.
“Scientists at the CDC and former colleagues speak of deep frustration and low morale over its inability to fully share and explain scientific and medical information.”
Link. GOP war on science.
Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing.
Link. McConnell’s hands on many of these.
“the San Antonio hospital system as a whole has seen roughly a tenfold increase in patients. In the Rio Grande Valley, ten of 12 hospitals are already full”
Link. It’s just the flu.
Apple Opens “Find My” Crowdsourcing to Third-Party Accessories
Link. Feeling antitrust pressure?
Man who allegedly drove car into Seattle demonstration, killing protester.
Link. “Kelete, who is black, was sorry and did not have political motivations.”
Spotify: “Soundtrack Your Workout attempts to ease that strain by doing the customization of a playlist specifically for you.”
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“woman in her early 30s developed a universally fatal brain disorder years after she had pierced her skin with equipment used to handle infectious rogue proteins called prions.”
Link. Nightmare
“Canon has also added support for saving 10-bit HEIF photos”
Link. Wow. This is first non-Apple HEIF I’m aware of
“turning point was way back on April 17, the day that Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA”
Link. The stupidest and least competent President in US history. Maybe the worst.
Why Arizona’s Covid-19 epidemic became the worst in the US.
Link. Bad leadership.
Churches Emerge as Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.
Link. MN Catholic bishop backstabbed governor to force church reopenings. Wonder if he fears meeting his victims enroute to the Bad Place. (I doubt he’s a believer though.)
A better COVID-19 Risk Index Infographic: with church
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Making informed choices: activities and COVID risk.
Link. I’m surprised beaches aren’t even lower. Omitting risk for church is cowardice.
Airlines are desperate: Don’t fly if you have a choice.
Link. Imagine the stress on flight crew.
“you won’t be able to tell by looking at a USB-C port whether it supports Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, or USB4”
Link. A logo would be nice.
COVID autopsy findings.
Link. Focus on coagulation, platelets, microembolic events. Concern for micro-stroke brain injury in survivors.
The infamous Harpers letter.
Link. I’d sign it. I dislike righteous mobs.
“Unless ThiefQuest changes its delivery vector, best protection from it is not to download any torrent.”
Link. Catalina has some protection.
MAXAIR CAPR® Series: The No-Hose PAPR (Powered Air-Purifying Respirator) | Mopec
Link. Every physician wants one. Nurses need this.
“Hittite king got a letter from someone claiming to be a foreign queen, promising to share her vast wealth with him if he would just send her a small token. He assumed it was a scam and replied with an insulting message — except it was real!”
Link. I’m just a Munroe fanboi.
“why humans can skate faster than they run, Dr. Weyand said: “On skates, you’re on the ground most of the time, like the quadrupeds, instead of being in the air.”
Link. Great discussion.