#Risk

"Only 12% of virus deaths in Italy were directly due to covid-19. The remaining 88% had pre-existing conditions."This point is meaningless without knowing: How common are pre-existing conditions? Asthma's one.
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If your barn is a small private barn with less than 5 people and the horses you ride are sales horses (ex you're helping keep sales horses fit) would you
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A lot of things have happened that have surprised me on one level or another but the big one is that a year ago I’d have said a Trump-led United
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1. It is a hard moment to get this message across, but overall, reoffending by released terrorist prisoners in England & Wales is very low.Much, much lower than the levels
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Someone had to start it so it might as well be me. Lamar Jackson is a really bad pick in fantasy, given his price. Not overpaying for QB is not
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Spoke to my partner today, a nurse, at the end of her 12 hour shift looking after ICU patients. She sobbed. Last night before her shift she told me how
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It's actually hilarious that men have tried tricking women into thinking that wanting communication is crazy and that even in quarantine that they're too busy gaming/sitting/breathing to send/ respond to
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House of Reps Speaker, Femi Gbaja, asked Minister of Health about the “hazard allowance” for doctors, nurses and health workers at the front line at risk of getting Coronavirus.Minister said
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10511522/ this paper (written in 1999) estimates the impact on the US economy of $71.3-$166.5 bn for an influenza epidemic that led to just 314k-734k hospitalizations, 18-42 mil outpatient visits,
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Android apps from dating to fertility to selfie editors share personal data with the Chinese company Jiguang via its SDK that is embedded in the apps, including GPS locations, immutable
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Quick lesson:You go grocery shopping. Your kid's partner goes grocery shopping and fills their gas tank. Your kid goes to work. You go to work. Your spouse goes to look
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Thread on the anti-CAA resolutions:The anti-CAA resolutions in cities like SF, Seattle, etc are simultaneously an admission by the activists that their arguments have no actual traction among Indian voters
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I hope I never touch sunscreen Feel bad for people who didn't spend the summers of their early twenties working at outdoor gig never wearing sunscreen and therefore never developing
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I throw the term "expected value" (EV for short) around a lot. What is it, and, more important, why is it the thing that matters?A thread about the median and
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1) President Trump is battling against a coronavirus that’s specifically designed, either by man or nature, to “assassinate by disease” elderly men over 70 years old, which he is, and
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Brief thread about a story I've been covering since 2018: The Trump @EPA still hasn't told thousands of Americans they faced elevated cancer risks from breathing ethylene oxide, a highly
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