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HypoNa -- I think you made a throwaway account for this reply, but I would really appreciate continuing this conversation with you. My email is available under my profile.

Added as a Kagi bang! Love it.

Agree. You could consider marketing to the DJ community where actually buying the music is commonplace.

This is likely related to COVID as well, just indirectly. - Research has shown that recent COVID-19 infection increases risk of heart attacks, strokes, and a ton of other vascular …

The mayor has been begging* for funds from the state for a long time now to fix the problem though. That being said, I'm sure there is lots of local and state mismanagement that wo…

Install failed. OS X 10.14.6. Happy to help debug with you.

I hate chart hacking. However, cases are up over 130% in the last two weeks. Hospitalizations up 80%. (1) The surge is unfortunately real. (1) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2…

Good take. Arterial clots with thrombocytopenia is incredibly rare. Additionally the PF4 activity in these patients is very abnormal and appears to be to immune mediated. Lots of s…

This was not testing against the South African and Japan/Brazil variants that are much more likely to escape vaccination antibodies. This UK variant is mostly problematic against t…

Probably too late for anybody's interest, but the risk of getting this from food is suspected to be incredibly low. Droplets being inhaled, entering through the eyes, or nasal muco…

I dealing some on the distribution side of this. NYT has a pretty good article explaining all the infrastructure that is being rolled out. (1) Even dry ice in coolers is low tech b…

Some of the KN95s have been found to be counterfeit. Some of the ones we tested were no better than a cloth mask. When buying KN95s, please check that they've been validated by the…

"Disposable" medical masks cost pennies to make, can be worn for multiple days, and are highly effective. In an environment where some folks refuse or can't mask, they are the most…

The primary difference in a medical mask and an N95 respirator is the tight seal that doesn't allow air around the sides. Unless you are in a high risk aerosolized environment, an …

I'm a critical care doc and directly involved with COVID administrative policies for my health system organization. I have recently told friends and family to start buying and wear…

Yes. Very easily.

IL6 is an inflammatory cytokine released due to a ton of stressors. Like fever, tachycardia, or tachypnea — this may be more a marker of sickness than sepsis. Hopefully not, but le…

As somebody that has this specific discussion regularly, I find that framing it as a group has helped in circumstances similar to yours. Framing it this way to your family and the …

I am a nerdy physician desperate to work with somebody on decision tree based expert systems. Are there a bunch of existing projects that I’m just missing?

I am physician. Would love to work on a decision support tool...

Underrated reply for the chemistry pun. As a physician we do occasionally see folks die from hyponatremia (low salt) from overly correcting dehydration with water. It’s a terrible …

Zillions of reasons. If you miss your meds, that stent can abruptly occlude and cause death. Maybe you open one large vessel but the downstream vessels are clogged—even microscopic…

In our ICU data we found that missing fields also predicted worse outcomes. My theory is that in sicker patients nurses are less worried about collecting all the data. But who know…

One brief clarification. Doc salaries are higher, but cost and length of training is higher too. Four years of college and four years of med school dig the hole very deep. Then thr…

Do you have hardware or can you let me know hardware you are currently using?