Link. I was lucky to get my daughter a bike on first day of lockdown here.
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[toread] NYT COVID-19 metro outbreak tracker.
Link. Excellent set of graphs but obscure home.
“their early findings suggest a fatality rate ranging from 0.5 percent to 1 percent.”
Link. Exactly estimates we had 6-8w ago. I like 0.7%
Tracking COVID in sewage: “The researchers then went to remote towns without any known cases of Covid-19. They discovered the coronavirus up to six days before the first confirmed cases were found there.”
Link. It’s done for hepatitis. Value unsure for COVID.
“So far, they haven’t found compelling evidence that the mutations have had a significant change in how the virus affects us.”
Link. So far … lots of interest in this. Coronavirus 2019 has, by RNA standards, a stable genome.
“Georgia will see a substantial worsening of the virus’s spread as a result of reopening.”
Link. Everyone is watching Georgia.
“Investors are buying stocks in part because they have nowhere else to go.”
Link. Wealth concentration.
“coronavirus has swept into Guayaquil with deadly force, overwhelming local authorities, funeral homes and hospitals”
Link. Can we send Rupert Murdoch there?
“life might return to normal long before a vaccine is ready to shoot into your arm”
Link. Vaccine seems longest shot. Teachers and healthcare first.
“Teachers will need support. Those most vulnerable to infection, such as diabetics, should be able to teach remotely. The rest will need guidance on hygiene and social distancing. They should be tested regularly for covid-19.”
Link. Buried deep in Economist article is the actual problem.
COVID Excess Mortality
Link. The CFR stays in the 0.5 to 2.0% range. I still favor 0.7%.
WHO, Gates Foundation email hack
Link. UN email systems sound as bad as you would expect. What is with these conspiracy nuts?
Coronavirus R0 Value Explained.
Link. Useful as a comcept.
Which image format is most resistant to corruption?
Link. PNG is awful, JPEG much better, uncompressed TIFF best
“Especially high concentrations appeared in the rooms where medical staff doff protective equipment,”
Link. Negative flow. Or outdoors.
“I never should have done this fucking vaping thing!” Trump told Azar on January 17”
Link. Even I have underestimated the power of Fox and Trump’s non-college base over Trump.
Advancing perihelion: General Relativity, Mercury, and a galactic black hole.
Link. Impressive math.
“In the close quarters of the birth cluster, however, it was easy for stars to steal wandering asteroids from one another.”
Link. Our sun has some.
“If you want to get your updates when they’re still fresh and timely, the only solution is to open the App Store app at least once a day, select the Updates item at the left, and press Command-R.”
Link. Everyone knows that. (no)
Why is kernel_task eating my CPU?
Link. “kernel_task‘s high load isn’t a cause of the problem, it’s part of the normal cooling response.”
New iPad Air versus 2016 iPad Pro.
Link. iPads last a long time. At least 5-6 years.
“The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) jointly and emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi”
Link. Latest Fox faves. Sane physicians putting heads through walls.
“Trump was warned in at least 12 different classified intelligence briefings throughout the months of January and February about the virus spread”
Link. Background music growing increasingly desperate.
“Long-term studies of SARS patients have shown that roughly a third of people who recovered from severe bouts were left with permanent lung damage.”
Link. COVID-19 lung damage will likely be more common.
TipBITS: Stop Getting Finder Windows in Tabs
Link. Same here. I just lived with the constant irritation. I’d be happy to see all tabs die.
Image Capture HEIF Conversion Padding: “add 1.5 MB of totally empty data to every single photo file it creates”
Link. Come on Apple.
File Integrity 9 : How error-correcting codes work
Link. “maths of even basic Reed-Solomon codes is extremely complex and involves juggling polynomials, and to explain them fully invokes Galois fields”
“Donald Trump is the most anti-science and anti-environment president we’ve ever had,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University.”
Link. McConnell is same. GOP War on Science was and is more than a slogan.
“physicists think for purely aesthetic reasons it would have been nicer if there was an equal amount of matter and antimatter in the early universe”
Link. Credit. Changed my thinking.
MPLS creates car-free street rec loops.
Link. in addition to river road.
“Sanofi and Regeneron have also designed a monoclonal antibody drug that is targeted specifically to the coronavirus, in the same way they designed the only drug that has worked against Ebola. Clinical trials of the drug will start in June.”
Link.
“United States recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths, nearly two times as many as were publicly attributed to covid-19”
Link. CFR and infectivity still tracking msinstream estimates.
Telmate’s Guardian parole app is as crappy as you would expect.
Link. We will know America is in recovery when we stop torturing prisoners and practicing slave labor.
DeWines plan to reopen Ohio.
Link. “DeWine said masks are not required for the general public outside, but they will be mandatory to be inside a business.”. This is science-based.
Parkinson’s case study: it’s a weird disease.
Link. Probably more than one disease with similar features.
“sparse bundles in Catalina 10.15.4: their structure, and how to work around the many bugs and incomplete features which might at first deter you from using them at all.”
Link. I’ve been lucky with them so far.
Anti IL-6 For COVID-19: sarilumab fails, tocilizumab still in play.
Link. Some progress.
Evangelical COVID: “As many as 30 church leaders from the nation’s largest African American Pentecostal denomination have now been confirmed to have died”
Link. Is this true? Seems high, even for disease that may be much worse in African American.
What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals About American Medicine.
Link. Supply chain, research, public health, communication. All troubled.
“even with such a busy schedule and Sunday being his wife’s 50th birthday, Trump managed to find time to keep tweeting”
Link. Ouch.
Tyson Foods: We need government. Also, you should panic.
Link. Longtime donors to the anti-government party.
“high value of Apple IDs on the dark web. A report back in 2018 found that they sold for a higher price than any other non-financial credentials.”
Link. Apple customers now leading target. My two special needs adult children do not know their Apple ID passwords.
“Google Fi can now be activated on an iPhone through eSIM.”
Link. It has appeal
Northern california COVID: “people age 18 to to 59 made up 46% of all hospitalizations”
Link. Fifty is the new Old.
Dancing with death — 32 days on a vent and ECMO.
Link. If you don’t tear up with that last photo you are a hard person.
Most Impactful iPad Apps of Decade.
Link. Via Tsai. Some I use, some I’ve discarded, some I’ve never heard of. I’m very conservative now sbout adoptong new products. So much time.
“Apple’s notebooks aren’t designed with enough thermal headroom.”
Link. The entry level Air is probably just right.
Super-cheap but less accurate COVID test for super-spreader detection.
Link. Lots of ideas n play.
[toread] Claim COVID coag disorder likely race influenced.
Link. “When interpreting VTE data on COVID it is important to appreciate differences in underlying risk btw populations.
At baseline, Chinese people have a 3-4x lower VTE risk than Caucasians and are less likely to be started on prophylactic AC.”
“sometimes feels like Fox News is eating my mother’s brain.”
Link. We need a wall of infamy inscribed with the names of the guilty. Rupert Murdoch next to Donald and Mitch.