Data science / machine learning Past: computational biology
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2018
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.@realDonaldTrump @CDCgov
The president was talking about mask sterilization with liquids.
Ethanol and bleach deterioriate masks
- Heat (dry or autoclave) preserves mask function, while deactivating virus.
#PPEShortages #Coronavirus #COVID19
N95 masks can be efficiently heat sterilized while preserving function.
The best approaches are dry heat and autoclave.
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Reduced connectivity
Masks
Culturally, precaution is respected
Why is nobody discussing truly staggering differences in death rates between Eastern and Western Europe? In the @FT graphs none of EE countries is even included. The gap is just striking. (Worldometer, 22 April).
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OMG, who could have predicted that... It's as if an academic visited the real world for the first time!
The simple task of recognizing a stop sign is harder than we can imagine. @karpathy youtu.be/hx7BXih7zx8
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The Stanford study predicts CFR of <.1%
those studies you show would predict
1.38% CFR NYC (14,451 already dead of pop 8.4M)
2.65% CFR Castiglione d'Adda, Italy (80 already dead of pop 4500)
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From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Rotterdam, our first batch of plastic has landed in the Netherlands for sorting. Once this is completed, we will transfer it for recycling.
**Nearly pure speculation ahead be advised**
We've seen healthy 30 year olds laid out or killed by the virus. we've seen unhealthy 65 year olds skate through it.
Is there any reasonable explanation? Here is one speculative genetic mechanism.
#Coronavirus #Immunology
Thread:
Is it at all possible that some HLA types are associated with severe coronavirus disease?
I think the answer is yes.
With the original SARS, there are a small number of papers that addressed HLA types, and at least one found correlations.
Association of HLA class I with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection
BMC Medical Genetics
12 September 2003
"These results appeared to indicate association of HLA-B* 4601 with the severity of SARS infection in Asian populations"
bmcmedgenet.biomedcentral.co…
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The irony is that I’d like to do the responsible thing and wipe user data from these machines, but Apple won’t let me. Literally the only option is to destroy these beautiful $3000 MacBooks and recover the $12/ea they are worth as scrap. #righttorepair
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How do you evaluate claims of
~13% seroprevalence in NYC
~30% in Chelsea, MA
~70% in Castiglione d'Adda, Italy
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The evidence is piling up though.
67% in Castiglione d'Adda
30% in Chelsea
>10% in NYC
These numbers not affected by a ~1% FPR.
Biased samples/bad tests maybe but looks possible people develop antibodies without realizing.
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Midwestern states forming #coronavirus compact
Minn, Wisc, Ill, Mich, Ky, Oh, In
cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/…
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A significant study published today shows that peak infectiousness for COVID occurs at or before symptoms appear.
This is being widely discussed within the medical community.
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
If Trump loses Wisconsin, a big part will be the Foxconn deal that Walker did.
Lot of not particularly political people hate the deal, for good reason. Wisconsin got rolled.
Congrats to the Czech Republic.
- mask law March 18th, case growth 20-30% per day.
New case growth now about 1% per day.
#Coronavirus #Masks4all
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More CCP soft power overreach backfiring. The Chinese consulate asked Wisconsin state senate president @SenatorRoth to pass a resolution that they wrote praising China's response to the coronavirus. Instead he wrote one to push back on CCP disinformation. wisconsinexaminer.com/2020/0…
Study out of Denmark claiming a 0.16% fatality rate from coronavirus, if true it would be "just the flu".
If true this would be good, I think, but it doesn't seem likely to me.
#coronavirus
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reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/com…
In Italy's latest infection tests, 5,000 / 60,000 (~8%) per day are testing positive.
So of the 60,000 people most suspected of the virus, less than 10% have it, but 20% of whole country is supposed to have had it?
Even at peak, positivity seems to have maxed out around 25%.