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12 votes
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An investment firm has bought more than twenty nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, leading to disruptions at multiple facilities that weakened care for vulnerable residents
6 votes -
The medications that change who we are
9 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of December 14
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
10 votes -
Covid-19: St Pancras crowds 'totally irresponsible'
9 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
4 votes -
Voices from the pandemic: A Walt Disney World waitress struggles to hold on to her middle-class life amid a pandemic and catastrophic layoff
10 votes -
How science beat the virus
8 votes -
Those who are not planning on getting a COVID-19 vaccine, what are your reasons?
From my understanding, even the usual allergies to like the trace egg proteins of typical influenza vaccines (not some of the ultrapure, though) don't apply to the new mRNA vaccines. So all that's...
From my understanding, even the usual allergies to like the trace egg proteins of typical influenza vaccines (not some of the ultrapure, though) don't apply to the new mRNA vaccines. So all that's left, aside from some immune disorder I think, there are only personal reason left and I'm curious as to what those are.
26 votes -
Is there any way to estimate how many people in a region currently have coronavirus?
I've always wanted to be able to run probabilities when considering doing something that could infect me with coronavirus. I know how many people test positive, how many are dying and how many are...
I've always wanted to be able to run probabilities when considering doing something that could infect me with coronavirus. I know how many people test positive, how many are dying and how many are getting tested. But what I really want to know is what are the odds that a mask-less interaction with one person will infect me.
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of December 7
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
10 votes -
Three digit suicide prevention hotline gets green light from House of Commons
21 votes -
US FDA clears Pfizer vaccine, and millions of doses will be shipped right away
17 votes -
COVID infections are low to nonexistent in several countries, where life looks practically normal. Some people even occasionally forget there’s a pandemic going on.
10 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
5 votes -
NPR Hospital bed utilization lookup tool
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (December 2020)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
26 votes -
Covid: 'How a picture of my foot became anti-vaccine propaganda'
11 votes -
How primate researchers are protecting great apes from Covid-19
4 votes -
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard
39 votes -
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has released the source code for the NZ Covid Tracer application on GitHub
10 votes -
We had the vaccine the whole time
24 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
8 votes -
"Women feel they have no option but to give birth alone": The rise of freebirthing during the pandemic
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"Do people understand what’s happening here? Do they care?" - On the excruciating wait for a vaccine inside a coronavirus-infected nursing home
6 votes -
Effects of drinking water on weight loss outcomes
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of November 30
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
11 votes -
'Natural immunity' from Covid is not safer than a vaccine
7 votes -
Moscow begins distributing the Sputnik V Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine to the most exposed groups via seventy clinics
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University of Nebraska Medical Center, the best-prepared hospital in the US for a pandemic, is nearly overwhelmed
10 votes -
In breast cancer screening, deep neural networks use different features than radiologists
@Taro Makino: DNNs perform well on a range of medical diagnosis tasks, but do they diagnose similarly to humans?In breast cancer screening, DNNs use different features than radiologists. Some are spurious, while others may represent new biomarkers.https://t.co/kyMiLtSxw0 1/9 pic.twitter.com/akpIH1OpYo
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UK authorises Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
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Educational and fun podcast episode about vaginal health: Dr. Jen Gunter with Jameela Jamil
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Due to the pandemic, an estimated fifty million children in Afghanistan and Pakistan missed polio vaccines this year
6 votes -
How supercomputers are identifying Covid-19 therapeutics
7 votes -
NHS to trial blood test to detect more than fifty forms of cancer
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of November 23
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
How Iceland hammered COVID with science – the tiny island nation brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus
9 votes -
An interesting analysis of scented candles reviews vs. COVID-19 spread
@Kate Petrova: I couldn't just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #datavizScented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n https://t.co/xEmCTQn9sA pic.twitter.com/tVecEiX5Jc
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
Opposition MPs in Denmark have urged the government to dig up millions of mink that were buried in mass graves amid Covid-19 fears
4 votes -
Scottish Parliament unanimously passes a bill to provide menstrual products for free across the country
30 votes -
Oxford University vaccine is highly effective
28 votes -
Thanksgiving harm-reduction advice for those who will travel or gather anyway
6 votes -
Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer
30 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of November 16
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
In 1978, a photographer at a Birmingham lab fell ill with smallpox, prompting a race against time to prevent an epidemic. Does the outbreak carry lessons for Covid-19?
12 votes -
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine goes to FDA today for emergency authorization
12 votes -
Burned out
8 votes -
Why is Finland coping so well with the coronavirus crisis? No other European country has lower rates.
10 votes