Can someone tell me if I am getting this right? If I haven't been proved positive of SARS-Cov-2 by either PCR or Antibodies authors can still count me as #LongCOVID anyways and Journal editors disagree with that? Mhhh, that sounds like Journal doing some science for change.
Apparently I was getting it right. So 39% of the sample was actually positive for SARS-Cov-2, while probably the whole sample was positive for "Probable Acute Viral Infection". NOW, the last phrase in statistics have a known name: "Crapping on your sample".
But let's follow on the 'false-negatives' if 61% of your sample are false-negative, can anyone explain to me: Why are we testing?
I cannot attest for the quality because just read through the methods until the point I cared to understand. BUT, if instead of #LongCOVID we would be talking about #LongAcuteViralInfection this probably would be an interesting study.
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1/n Update on my home-town 'interesting' SARS-Cov-2 'non-situation'. If you haven't read the thread I am citing, read that one first because this is an update on that.
2/n As I stated there I have been tracking the disease there because my parents and my grandparents live there. So, I have invested interest into understanding the situation.
3/n I also know the infectious disease expert in charge there too and I discussed with her the strategy back in August after they detected their first 50 cases and we did a estimation on the sizing of the hospital ICU care necessary and final death toll.
@martinmoline@Gus_Noriega@nytimes 1/n Vamos a hacer una cosa, el que no entiende de ciencia te va contar algo que obviamente vos ya sabes, pero decime donde me estoy equivocando.
@martinmoline@Gus_Noriega@nytimes 3/n Ha’eri and Wiley [1980] le pusieron microesferas de albumina al interior de las máscaras (source control) y las buscaron en las heridas luego de 20 operationes. “Particle contamination of the wound was demonstrated in all experiments.” Mhhh. europepmc.org/article/med/73…
1/n Probably this is not too well known, I know I didn't though @andrey_akinshin has a blog post about it. If your software uses a lot of Stopwatch [QueryPerformanceCounter] and we do for showing a lot of detailed measurements to our users, there are a few gotchas. That is 30%.
2/n That measurement for me was strange, its like: How on earth could I miss 30% of the runtime cost just calling the Stopwatch Start/Stop on a core routine? It's the kind of thing that just don't escape the WTF?!?! label.
3/n I hypothesize, the only reason how that can happen is because we are somehow transitioning into kernel space. It didn't add up, at all. And when I mentioned @ayende though similarly to me.
How better the world would be if people would exercise some brain activity before activating the muscles to hit keyboard keys at pseudo random. The masks ninjas clearly have absolutely no advantage.
And that is IF I would look away from evidence. It is highly probable that most influenza strains comes from... GUESS WHERE!!!! Asia, and I am pretty sure that is not a shock to anyone. A simple google search: "where does influenza comes from" suffices
Obviously a young and inquiring mind like @jamesbleekerPL would notice also that massive (no other word would suffice) influenza on 2019... Let me guess... What did happen at the end of 2019... Anyone said 13 different SARS-Cov-2 sequences by December??? independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…
I live in a country that has mandated masks even in outdoors (where I don't use it, period). I vote with my wallet, BUT, for maximum civil disobedience this is my mask for when I have no choice (shops, kids school, etc). It reads: "Doesn't filter aerosols. Doesn't work for CV19"
For maximum irony, this is a triple layer, high quality, medical grade mask (even though ear loop design is quite crappy IMHO), next step: N95 (but they are a pain to wear). So when anyone says something I tell: "Come on? Haven't you read the evidence?" and then I explain.
Then I point them to the hilarious European CDC study and explain the how 19 out of 20 are just bad evidence and the only one that its actually good, is compatible with higher infection rates. Details here: