What do you define as "victim"? Certainly not "any person who was infected" I assume. Otherwise it's like to see a reference for that statement.

I didn't do a thorough search but CDC saw that 5000 covid-related myocarditis in the hospitals over the course of a year:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...

Ehm? Blood oxygen is usually not measured by sending blood samples to the lab, but rather with a real-time non-invasive pulse oximeter, as started by the paper that you cite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

That said, p.o. indeed tends to give low values under certain conditions, though mainly if the oxygen saturation is critically low anyway (based on a quick look at this paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... )

If I understand correctly, PFOA (which is a PFCA) has been banned in the EU since 2015 or so.

The teflon itself (PTFE) is not the problem, but apparently they needed PFOA to make the teflon stock to the metal. I wonder whether teflon pans are now or teflon or there is another unpleasant compound that replaces PFOA.

I wonder how the E in P/E is calculated for a company like Netflix. Earnings are the net increase in assets over a year. When a large part of the assets is intellectual property - their own productions - then you have to estimate the value. Doesn't seem straightforward to me.

Latest numbers : 31 G$ 'content assets' out of 45 G$ balance. Increased 5 G$ over 2021, similar to earnings over 2021.

Financial statement: https://s22.q4cdn.com/95985316...

Decent long distance interconnects are not going to solve the day/night and seasonal cycles for solar. They might help for wind energy though.

From what I remember reading, in the coming 30 years, all Western countries as well as China will experience population reduction. But the African continent will experience population growth, Nigeria first. Maybe that's what Facebook is counting on, a long term bet?

What kind of climate for you have in mind as problematic for duct tape? Russia spans latitudes down to 42N and has a continental climate. Record temperature is 45 C (113 F). Those drones might be stored in dark army trucks that are baking in the sun for hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Trains do take a long time, though. I just checked: I can fly from Amsterdam to Münich in 1.5 hours. Granted, one should add 2 hours to be on the airport, and another half hour to get to the airport. Total: 4 hours. You can also take the train to Münich. It'll take 9h39m, let's make that 10 hours total.

I've done that trip a number of times, but in the end, 10 hours was a bit too much for me.

Costs are roughly equal, by the way, about 150 euros.

Practice here: https://www.whichfaceisreal.co...

With faces generated by GANstyle it's fairly easy to recognize fakes, for the time being.

* Blurry or crazy background. Sometimes weird blobs. Never anything recognizable.
* Fabrics of clothing undefined.
* Mismatched earrings, mismatched left/right eyeglasses. Occasionally mismatched ears. Weird hairstyle around the ears. Sometimes mismatched eye colors.

The faces themselves are very convincing, though.

A lot of software development stuff can be paralellized. So any software developer is going to see gains.

In phase-123 trials they compare infection rates between the vaccinated group and a control group. The control group typically gets a non-covid vaccine that will also produce some side effects so that it is hard for the participant to guess to which group they belong.

In studies (not trials) there is indeed a risk of confounding variables, although they can control for that to some extent, for example by comparing in-household transmissions. I didn't read the Israel study though. But generally I'd expect people to become less, not more cautious after a vaccination, so the effect would work the other way.

The normalization against plant viruses is smart, but it doesn't make sense why you need that to correct for the dilution by non-toilet water. I'm sure the wastewater plants have a good idea of how much volume per day they process; you can just multiply the measured concentration by the daily volume. The plant virus they're testing for is specific to bell/chili peppers, so now you also have to normalize against seasonal variations in pepper consumption and virus concentration.

It is useful for a different reason though: viral RNA is broken down between toilet time and sampling time at the wastewater plant, likely dependent on temperature and dilution (RNA-degrading enzymes also get diluted). Both are affected by shower water, laundry water, rainfall, and weather. Since the plant virus is also an RNA virus, this normalization takes care of that.

I donated to Mint a few times. I might pay more if they show a financial statement about what the money is used for. It isn't clear whether the money goes to one person (Clement), a company with multiple employees, or a nonprofit organization; whether it funds Cinnamon, and so on.

Nobody needs to make a conscious decision like that for a particular bug. Just squeeze the budget for maintaining this piece of software in favor of the cloud offerings. Sooner or later a bad bug like this will appear.

Someone making a conscious decision to leave a time-bomb bug in has some options:

- don't tell anyone. Then no personal gain and risk getting fired if it is discovered.
- agree to do this with people above you. Now they risk getting fired if it turns out to have too much fallout. And they could take you down with them.

It's much easier to throttle budgets so that stuff gets overlooked. Especially in a large organization where very few people have an overview and where people come and go.

South Africa noticed that their TaqPath PCR tests started showing massive amounts of S-gene target failure, i.e. only detected two out of three RNA segments. Long before impact on hospitalisation rates could be noticed.

Fortunately, S.A. has a decent capacity for both testing and sequencing.