Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures

Post by _0w8t » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:19 PM UTC

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I was wrong with vitamin C, it was vitamin A deficiency that is correlated with severe symptoms, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28282701/ And given that precise numbers like 93% is meaningless. One should either give the range or at least describe the population. And it turned out 93% was not coming from the study in https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/12/e2026153118.full.pd... , they just reference https://www.nc…

Do you expect HN comments to use more accurate language than medical researchers use in published papers? I don't. So describing the difference between "93%" and "about 93%" as 'much more sensible', in this context, seems excessively nitpicky. Even more so given that you got the wrong vitamin and it took you a couple of tries until you got the right citation.

Post by ashtonkem » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:29 PM UTC

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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/measles/index.html > The MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. Two doses of MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles; one dose is about 93% effective. Prevention of Measles, Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, and Mumps, 2013 Summary Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at https://www.jstor.org/stable/24832555 > One dose of me…

Seeing people very critical of vaccine studies of a successfully eradicated disease that has had a long time since to evaluate that success aside a really generous benefit of the doubt given to vague claims about vitamin supplements makes me sad. We can be observant and suspicious about the healthcare industry while also admitting that there is science being done. They manufacture vitamin C supplements, too. They mak…

Post by dnautics » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

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What aspect, specifically, is suspected to be wrong? The scientific understanding of viruses might be further along than most doctors suspect. There are concepts like pangenome that are becoming appreciated at the research level that might not have gotten to doctors yet.

This is completely off topic, and I apologize, but I clicked your profile. First off, I am impressed by your credentials, very nice work, you should be proud. But this segment in your about: box is oddly hilarious to me. Maybe I've just had too much champagne. Happy New Year, from a West Coaster posting at 12:05 AM. >yt code channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLf5mA1y1vDNlydJ8d5CmSt... >[censored by desine…

Post by Spooky23 » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

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What percentage of doctors are unvaccinated? Or is there atleast a number or some reporting on doctors getting fired for refusing vaccinations? >I would take a different position, like "what do these highly qualified health care workers understand that I don't?" Examples?

It’s literally the dumbest line of logic and my barely literate neighbor justifies his antivax status with the same theory. “What do the doctors who have declined the vaccine know that I don’t” Even though over 99% of practicing doctors and something like 99.9% of hospitalists are vaccinated, they hold up that 1/1,000 as some sort of “truthsayer”. If 999 experts in a field told you they trusted something and 1/1,000…

Post by desine » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

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Too late to edit, but I'm getting mixed votes (which I usually don't pay much attention to), so I will explain: There's a few different frameworks people are working within. From my experience, linking or forwarding to any "outside the box" ideas in this sphere will only invite more downvotes, argumentation over the details, and flamewars. Any linking of these ideas would be interpreted by some to be an endorsement o…

I mean I suspect that the flu pangenome was evolving "meta-capabilities" to evade the way that our flu vaccines are selected by the authorities, you can see, vaguely, a declining efficacy of the flu vaccine in the last 5 years pre-pandemic (admittedly this could also be noise, or it could also be a measurement artefact due to better tracking). However, we'll probably never know since the flu patterns totally got rekt…