https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/cdc-coronavirus-touching-surfaces.html
Interesting use of the Wayback Machine in news reporting to see how messaging has evolved, viz:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22332
Letter | Published: 17 May 2017
Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments
Hirokazu Shirado & Nicholas A. Christakis
Nature volume 545, pages370–374 (18 May 2017)
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According to the Tracking Project’s figures, nearly one in five people who get tested for the coronavirus in the United States is found to have it. In other words, the country has what is called a
“test-positivity rate” of nearly 20 percent.
That is “very high,” Jason Andrews, an infectious-disease professor at Stanford, told us. Such a high test-positivity rate almost certainly means that the U.S. is not testing everyone who has been infected with the pathogen, because it implies that doctors are testing only people with a very high probability of having the infection.
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The positivity rate is not the same as the proportion of COVID-19 cases in the American population at large, a metric called
“prevalence.”* …
Prevalence is a crucial number for epidemiologists, in part because it lets them calculate a pathogen’s true infection-fatality rate: the number of people who die after becoming infected.
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Interesting discussion of the development of “Digital Doubles” as a kind of computational subconscious for each person, residing in the cloud
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SEPTEMBER 2018
Artificial Intelligence Will Serve Humans, Not Enslave Them
AI will serve our species, not control it
By Pedro Domingos
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Humans are the only animals that build machines. By doing so, we expand our capabilities beyond our biological limits. Tools turn our hands into more versatile appendages. Cars let us travel faster, and airplanes give us wings. Computers endow…
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/98-6-degrees-fahrenheit-isnt-the-average-any-more-11579257001
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Today, they say, the average normal human-body temperature is closer to 97.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
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