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Daily Archives: October 18, 2020
“Iwasaki’s work indicates the T-cell response of men in their 30s and 40s is equivalent to that of a woman in her 90s.”
Link. Minor positive: men have less auto-immune disease.
“for remdesivir, it looks like the argument now is “Does it help a bit or just not at all?”
Link. Inhaled interferon also limited hope now. At least we still have Dexa. Then there are the monoclonals that only the powerful get …
Reeder 5 RSS is $5.
Link. Reeder has had a burst of development. I wonder if he’s doing yearly updates now; yearly $5 price is quite fine. I’ll buy in a few months.
“the epistemic capture in the US of (not only, but in particular) poor and working class whites by conservatives, billionaires and propagandists is one of the great social engineering success stories of the last half century”
Link. Great explanation of the Trump base. I believe this.
microCOVID risk calculator.
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COVID – activity risk calculator.
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Cold, dark, and COVID: the coping.
Link. Sleep a lot.
Making movies: “But never, ever, kill the dog.”
Link. Not even cats.
“health club was opened late last year by Maryam Durani, 36, an indomitable women’s rights advocate who has survived two suicide bombings, an assassination attempt and countless death threats”
Link. Extreme heroism is a kind of pathology — but also, you know, heroic.
Independently Microsoft, US gov and others fight Russian election hackers.
Link. Too many independent efforts for Trump to block.
“find an antibody that not only works against the current virus, but also past viruses that might re-emerge, like SARS, and future viruses that exist already in the bat reservoir”
Link. A prize worthy of pursuit.
Physical Therapy for Back Pain – Limited benefits.
Link. Damn hard to study. I believe in very intense strengthening, far beyond usual PT, but I don’t have good ecidence.
Early data on post COVID lung recovery.
Link. Roughly what we expected. Most get mostly better over months to year, many have some residual lung damage. (Also true of everyday pneumonia.)
Miss Havisham Syndrome:”I’ve spent much of the last week in the squalor that is macOS.”
Link. Technical debt grows exponemtially. Apple has had poor software leadership.
“because most transmission is probably occurring through particles of at least 1 µm, according to Marr and Jimenez, the actual difference in effectiveness between N95 and other masks might not be huge.”
Link. Excellent summary on mask data writtem for lay audience.