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The data scientist fired by the FL government because she refused to cook the data, and who has been publishing on her own account a report of COVID numbers, has been raided by the state police claiming she had illegally accessed a FL Department of Health messaging system which is part of the Emergency Alert System.
They took all her computer hardware and her phone and pointed guns at her children.
I was about to post that. I don’t trust any numbers out of Florida, frankly.
Apparently in June-July 2020 Pfizer offered the US another 100 million doses and was turned down, so Pfizer contracted with other countries to sell them there. Now we can’t get more until summer 2021.
That is extremely interesting. The link shows an estimate of infections-to-case counts of 11-to-1, so the estimate you gave above of 99.8% probably includes something like that.
In Australia, the case mortality rate is 908/27965, around ~ 3%. That is probably close (in Australia), to the actual infection mortality rate, taking into account that, in Australia, exposure was much higher in older groups (nursing homes and retirement cruising), and taking into account the high level of testing (in Australia) of all known contacts.
When the infection is restricted to distinct subgroups, actual infection mortality is different than theoretic infection mortality . Unfortunately, infection in the USA is clearly out of control in the community, so you will be getting both much lower infection mortality than we were, and many more dead people.
This is a perfectly legitimate discussion IN ANOTHER THREAD.
The Food and Drug Administration released a detailed analysis Tuesday morning of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its partner BioNTech ahead of a Thursday meeting of a group of independent experts that will advise the agency on whether to grant the vaccine an emergency use authorization.
The agency’s analysis finds “no specific safety concerns identified that would preclude issuance of an EUA.” Serious reactions were rare. Side effects are common, however, with a majority of study volunteers experiencing reactions at the site of injection, headaches and fatigue.
The analysis also affirms the previously stated vaccine effectiveness of 95%, assessed a week after two doses of vaccine. The vaccine doses are given 21 days apart.
The clinical data also suggest that the vaccine may be able to prevent COVID-19 after the first dose — 82% effective — though the FDA analysis says the available information doesn’t allow for a firm conclusion on that potential effect.
67,938,995 total cases
1,550,263 dead
47,023,575 recovered
In the US:
15,370,587 total cases
290,489 dead
8,983,853 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I’m sorry this post is so delayed. Those are the numbers from 7 December at about 9pm PST.
Good grief, don’t apologize. You’re allowed to do something else with your life!
Nope, the streak is over. Shut down the thread.
Yeah - absolutely do not apologize Bo. You’re a freakin’ hero!
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Now is the winter of our discontent, glorious news.
@GIGObuster: well, at the age of 556, Shakespeare would definitely be considered at elevated risk. 
Many companies that furloughed workers in shutdowns stopped paying for health insurance.
If you were lucky enough not to lose your job during the pandemic, you may still have lost pay and your health insurance, according to a new analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About half the U.S. businesses surveyed by the federal government said they had furloughed employees at some point in 2020. Of those, roughly half continued to pay wages to at least some of their workers while furloughed, but only 42 percent continued to pay at least a portion of the workers’ health insurance premiums. Individuals who could not afford to pay the premiums on their own may have lost their coverage.
People working in the hotel and restaurant industry, devastated by the crisis, were hardest hit, with just 23 percent of employers paying health insurance premiums for their furloughed workers. In the airline industry, 68 percent of businesses continued to pay for coverage when their employees were not working; in the health-care industry, the figures was a little more than half.
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That car window study is a mixture of surprising information and “Duh! It’s common sense.”
I thought this was going to be a “water is wet” study, but it had an interesting conclusion:
The most surprising finding was that it’s best for the driver to open the front seat window on the right side and for the passenger to open the back seat window on the left side, rather than the windows right beside them, said the study published in the journal Science Advances.
“When the windows opposite the occupants are open, you get a flow that enters the car behind the driver, sweeps across the cabin behind the passenger and then goes out the passenger-side front window,” Kenny Breuer, a professor of engineering at Brown and a senior author of the research, said in the news release. “That pattern helps to reduce cross-contamination between the driver and passenger.”
68,567,527 total cases
1,563,130 dead
47,462,104 recovered
In the US:
15,591,709 total cases
293,398 dead
9,087,069 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison: