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Did anyone else run into the nightmare subscribe pop up on wired?
WHO: two of the four drugs we thought would work did not work as well as expected. WIRED: EBOLA CURED https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/independent-monitoring...
A fact that many people miss about Ebola is that while its survival rate is very low when untreated, it becomes relatively high (I think in the 80%) with simple things like IV hydration. Basically you are going to lose a LOT of water through that infection. Feeding you water (and minerals) directly in the veins gives a surprisingly high survival rate. What makes Ebola so dangerous is the ease at which infection sprea…
The title calling it "curable" feels a bit misleading. To explain... Ebola's a viral infection, like the common cold or the flu. If someone gets sick with it, then usually their immune system should fight it off naturally, just like the common cold or the flu. And just like a cold/flu, there hasn't really been a cure for it; instead, Ebola sufferers would be put on bed-rest with fluids to resist dehydration, fever ma…
Wellll, an crude guess from 5 years ago made the point that 50% is in African countries, and US healthcare may drop it to 30% on its own: https://www.livescience.com/48263-ebola-mortality-us-africa....
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That trial wasn't a "statistically spurious event", it was a flawed trial > the reason the first trial came to an exaggerated impression seemed to be the number of patients who might not have fully progressed to SPMS Stopping early can lead to statistical fraud, which is why the bar is so high on doing so. But it has to be balanced with the recognition that, if the interim results are correct, continuing the trial wi…
Having worked in clinical trialling, what I saw made me realise that the final stats may be worth much less because of mismanagement of data. I can give some hare-raising examples[0] but for obvious reasons... The one I can give is it was known that docs who prescribed this to multiple patients and saw an apparent improvement the attributed to the new drug, would switch the patients on the old drug to the new and not…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20682918
It's supposed to be hair-raising because it's alarming and surprising etc. Nothing to do with taking care of hares :)
Much-needed Outline.com of the article: https://outline.com/MJaPqX Wired.com is almost literally unreadable. It's a caricature of all that's wrong with modern web design. Is everyone else seeing what I'm seeing? http://u.cubeupload.com/temp9871/wired.png
With JavaScript disabled, the Wired article loads fine and the outline.com article doesn't load at all. I'd say you have that backwards.
There are other options -- Reader View in Firefox and w3m in console are two I use frequently. For browsers other than Firefox, Outline is useful and I'm grateful it exists.