Liked the line: “We have to modify technology, or else it will modify us.”
Also,
liked the remarkable tablet, but what about just writing with pen & paper and then scanning & OCR’ing? Isn’t that distraction-free?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write
Recently discovered the Up-Goer Five website
(https://splasho.com/upgoer5) from the
@NaturePodcast. It makes you write text using only the thousand (or ‘ten hundred’) most common words. Great for removing jargon & forcing you to explain science in the simplest possible way.
extended QT: {{”
A typical 65-year-old American woman — to take one example — is five foot three inches tall and weighs 166 pounds. If she had been vaccinated and did not have a major Covid risk factor, like an organ transplant, her chance of dying after contracting Covid would be 1 in 872, according to the calculator. For a typical 65-year-old man, the risk would be 1 in 434.
Among 75-year-olds, the risk would be 1 in 264 for a typical woman and 1 in 133 for a typical man.
Those are meaningful risks. But they are not larger than many other risks older people face. In the 2019-20 flu season, about 1 out of every 138 Americans 65 and older who had flu symptoms died from them, according to the C.D.C.
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Liked this qt: “A typical 65-year-old…woman…If…vaccinated and did not have a major Covid risk factor…her chance of dying after contracting Covid would be 1 in 872…In…2019-20…about 1 out of every 138 Americans 65 and older who had flu symptoms died from them.” …
But wonder if these stats are distorted by asymptomatic infections — i.e. if the 1 out of 872 reflects those showing Covid symptoms.
Omicron Is in Retreat: ‘What’s Next?’ – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/briefing/omicron-variant-cases.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04064-3
some focus on its main method
MR-MEGA
https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/26/18/3639/3976569
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/health/covid-rapid-test-omicron-detection.html
Ughh! Was happy that I managed to find a few of these at Walmart. Now it appears that they might not be that useful after all.
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