oh, wait, look:
How did they know who had existing heart conditions so that they could exclude them? The average age of people in the study was 62, and it was 70% male. Putting aside Covid, you don't think that roughly half of that subset has some sort of heart issue going on, whether they know it or not? Come on man, aren't you some sort of scientist? How are you duped so easily? But again, follow the #science and #experts.
The “cashless” stuff is problematic because it leaves out the unbanked.
Is 2&2 arguing that there’s no way to find out if someone has or has had a heart condition?
The “cashless” stuff is problematic because it leaves out the unbanked.
The restaurants around us that have gone cashless are the $16-lunch-salad type places. I don't think they had too many unbanked customers to start with.
I made the mistake of clicking on the Tunnels Coronavirus thread, in which every other post seems to be about Trump. All politics aside, is this thing as big of a deal as the media is making it out to be? It seems like a more contagious, slightly more powerful, but shorter, version of pneumonia. I'm not sure where that ranks on things to be worried about unless you are over 75 or so or have preexisting respiratory problems. That said, if it is more serious than that then we should definitely take it seriously - but it is difficult to know how much of what the media reports is actually concerning. This gives the smell of their typical pending milkwich snowstorm school closings that ends up being 45 degrees and sunny.
It depresses me that their vote counts as much as mine.
So is this promising new vaccine news for real?
No, I'm arguing that many, if not most, people have no idea whether or not they have a heart condition. So assuming that everyone who doesn't know they have a heart condition just suddenly got it as a result of Covid is idiotic.
The source data were sought from medical professionals and hospitals not individual patients, and the researchers asked the medical professionals to determine if the patient had prior heart disease (see question 7 in the link below). So this would not be the case that 50% of the dudes in this study failed to self evaluate their prior heart conditions. You are definitely identifying a potential observational uncertainty in the study, however the authors took steps to minimize the problem and there results show a strong association that it is hard to attribute the entire affect to misclassified prior status.
Here is a link to the source article in the scientific journal (I have no idea if this is a quality journal, what the impact factor or publication costs are):
https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa178/5859292?searchresult=1
Feel free to put your skepticism to test and review the paper.
Here is a link to the data used in the study:
https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup...t~nO0QP3ug__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA
Feel free to analyze the data in anyway that you think is more appropriate.
The source data were sought from medical professionals and hospitals not individual patients, and the researchers asked the medical professionals to determine if the patient had prior heart disease (see question 7 in the link below). So this would not be the case that 50% of the dudes in this study failed to self evaluate their prior heart conditions. You are definitely identifying a potential observational uncertainty in the study, however the authors took steps to minimize the problem and there results show a strong association that it is hard to attribute the entire affect to misclassified prior status.
Here is a link to the source article in the scientific journal (I have no idea if this is a quality journal, what the impact factor or publication costs are):
https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa178/5859292?searchresult=1
Feel free to put your skepticism to test and review the paper.
Here is a link to the data used in the study:
https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup...t~nO0QP3ug__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA
Feel free to analyze the data in anyway that you think is more appropriate.
7. Pre-existing cardiovascular co-morbidities (select all that apply)
Known heart failure
Known ischemic heart disease
Known valve disease
Hypertension
Diabetes Mellitus
Other (please specify)
The medical professional is the person checking the boxes on the always-scientific SurveyMonkey, but where do you think they are getting the underlying health history info from if not the patient? You think the doctor in the Covid-ICU has been the patient's primary care physician for his life? Of course not, he is getting the info off the intake form that the patient or his family has filled out.
I demand perfect data from a patchwork of systems and organizations never designed or funded to produce it. Until you provide that you need to reopen NC.