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Comment Re:"veterinary" (Score 1) 314

You guess wrong, which I expect is pretty common for your guesses. You would have to be mind numbingly stupid to think a study would get approval to use the not-approved for humans version of a drug when an approved for humans variant exists. Even stupider than expecting a slashdot summary to accurately represent the thing it links to.

Comment Re:Next up, kids (Score 1) 187

Why on earth would they say "from COVID-19"? That's not how English works.

As a simple example with nothing to do with COVID:

https://www.google.com/search?... - "in hospital with leukemia" this gives me 38,200 results.

https://www.google.com/search?... - "in hospital from leukemia" this gives me 4 results. Because that is not how English phrasing works.

Comment Re:EU Shows It Doesn't Understand What a Gig Is (Score 4, Insightful) 89

And those companies can just satisfy the easy-peasy requirements for independent contractors if thats true. The EU understands exactly what a gig is - the company doesn't get to say "you can't work for that other company at the same time" or "you have to do the job in this way" - if they want to they're an employer.

Comment Re:Big companies == no communication (Score 1) 166

Google is better at running a mail sever than they are. Of course using an @gmail.com address is foolish, having google host the email for your domain seems fine (backups elsewhere as usual). People do get stuck with an email address they started using when they were young and foolish often enough - and the longer you put off changing it the harder it is.

Comment Re:Yeah but what age were they? (Score 5, Informative) 294

>Finally, the absolute risk of post-discharge adverse events was greater for individuals aged 70 years than 70 years, and for individuals of White ethnic background than in the Non-White group. However, when contrasted against the background rates of adverse events that might be expected to occur in these groups in the general population, younger and ethnic minority individuals faced greater relative risks than those aged 70 years and those in the White group, respectively.

So they found that if you have known comorbidities, you'll have worse outcomes. That's it.

So you consider being aged under 70 a comorbidity? Quite the hot take.

That is a very strange summary of those findings. 30% of the covid group were readmitted versus 10% of the control group (matched on age, sex, ethnicity, region, Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile, smoking status, and clinical histories of hypertension, major adverse cardiovascular event, respiratory disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, diabetes, cancer) were readmitted. 12% of the covid group died versus 2% of the control group.

If their methodology and statistics are valid (it isn't peer reviewed yet, and I'm certainly not an expert on that) those are reasonably large increases that has nothing to do with "if you have known comorbidities you'll have worse outcomes". It's possibly useful information to have for places with large numbers of covid patients in hospitable at the moment - they might need more resources than they would expect and that will overlap with new cases in places where case numbers are not being brought under control.

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