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health
2y
FDA approves lecanemab under its accelerated approval.
Accelerated approval allows for approval if a drug fills an unmet need for a serious condition based on a surrogate endpoint instead of clinical benefit. The approval can be revoked later if the clinical
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house
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Going to 12 rounds. Only 4 speakership votes have gone on longer than this in the entire history of the House.
His speakership still is likely dead for the time being, but we may see fewer votes against him today. In any case if he does pull off the impossible here he's going to be essentially a Speaker in name
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american
2y
The militarization of American society since WW2.
I've been reading this new book called "In Search of Monsters.." and it discusses at length, the militarization of American society since WW2. One way I think that has become increasingly obvious
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economy
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GDPNow still not calling for recession.
This economy is seemingly refusing to follow the punditry calling for a recession. GDPNow's nowcast expects Q4 GDP to come in at 3.9%. Just a little over 3 weeks until the actual GDP release. There's some
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covid
2y
Omicron sub-varian XBB.1.5 becomes dominant strain.
The new Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 is now 40.5% of new cases in the US. It was half that last week. In the northeast it is as much as 75% of new cases. Not much is known about this sub-variant. It is
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book
2y
One small change with potentially big consequences.
Health is among the most common new years resolutions people will make in 2023. And that means you are likely to see a fresh influx of people begin their working out journeys. To that end, encourage them
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conservatism
2y
Millennials are not getting more conservative as they age.
I shared data on this for the US before, but here's some UK data as well. You can see it via ideological self-identification as well. There's of course plenty of time for things to change, but what we've
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capitalism
2y
Pros and cons of capitalism and maybe some new definitions.
My friend and I were talking about the pros and cons of capitalism and we realized that we mean totally different things by "capitalism." So we decided to coin two new words to replace the ambiguous
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covid
2y
So far, no new variants have emerged from China.
China isn't doing a lot of genomic surveillance, but of the submissions to GISAID so far no new variants have emerged from China's current outbreak. Just circulating Omicron sub-variants that have been
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covid
2y
This dude is tiresome.
This isn't how any of this works. Christine Grady is the head of bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center. It is a completely separate unit from the NIAID, where Fauci is the director. The NIAID has its own
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netflix
2y
Glass Onion complaints aren't without basis.
Shapiro is not known for being a movie critic as opposed to political commentary, but his complaints about Glass Onion are kinda right.. Glass Onion was boring, in part because Johnson as per usual, didn't
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musk
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My take on the fun and games and chaos on twitter:
Free speech would be great if it weren't for people. We seem to refuse to believe that our culture is shifting to the dark side -- mostly because we refuse to accept others' beliefs that don't match our
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news
2y
Direct TV incompetence.
While I've seen many customer demands for Direct TV to drop Fox News and the Fox Business Channel, I would have expected changes to happen with some sort of notice. Flat out dumping their channels while
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covid
2y
Bleaker by the day.
It's estimated that 37 million people in China are getting COVID per day right now, with an estimated 250 million cases over the course of this month. It's also estimated there will be 1-2 million deaths
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son
2y
The truth about Santa Claus.
Son: "Dad, I think I'm old enough now to know the truth. Is there really a Santa Claus?” Dad: "Ok, I agree that you’re old enough. But before I tell you, I have a question for you. You see, the
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pandemic
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2021 life expectancy stats are in, and it's ugly.
From 78.8 years in 2019, to 76.4 years in 2021, rolling back 25 years in progress. Drug overdoses plays some role, but it's mostly COVID, partially offset by reduced flu deaths from masking and distancing.
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obituary
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I don't want to let his passing go unmarked here, as watching Franco Harris play football was a great pleasure.
Franco left us this week at age 72... which is too young to die. Franco was a great ambassador of football, and was generally regarded as one of the really nice guys among its elders. I do have to say,
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politics
2y
Looking back on this piece from 2018 after the pandemic.
Our politics is ill-suited to public health investment. A 2017 review found that health protection campaigns like vaccination had a median return on investment of $34 for every $1 spent. A lead paint control
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minnesota
2y
Telehealth pilot program for covid treatment.
Minnesota peeps, the state has just started a new telehealth pilot program for coronavirus treatment. If you test positive for COVID, either from at-home test or a lab test, you can connect to a licensed
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film
2y
My problem with movies shot with High Frame Rate.
I got my ticket to see Avatar at 1:30pm today. I was in a weird spot in selecting the presentation format. I hate 3D. I hate hate hate 3D. I think it's the second least cinematic gimmick to infect the
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