A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

🇮🇪Ireland: Covid-19 may have been a factor in crash which claimed couple’s lives, coroner says.

"Dr Bolster said that while the full impact of Covid-19 infection was yet to be fully understood, it was established that the disease can cause long term tiredness and fatigue. She said she believed Covid-19 could have been a factor in Pat Allen losing control of his car."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/05/31/covid-19-may-have-been-a-factor-in-crash-which-claimed-couples-lives-coroner-says/

#HeartAttacks In Young People On The Rise: Healthy 38-Year-Old Speaks Out

https://www.today.com/health/causes-heart-attack-young-person-rcna144529

#itsAMystery

This is THE mother of all articles on everything that is wrong with our society #itsCovidStupid

I just cannot🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Oh my good FCKING GOD.
Friend in the UK who has just been on a CRUISE posting that she has "caught a cold on the plane on the way home" but that she had a bit of a sore throat on the ship which she put down to the air conditioning. Several others travelling with her also have "a cold".
We are in YEAR FIVE of this fvcking PANDEMIC people.
IT'S NOT A COLD.
#COVIDISNOTOVER

While Democrats are cheering the #TrumpVerdict, #Republicans and #FoxNews are filling the heads of millions with lies designed to convince them that Democrats are destroying democracy and the rule of law. It's hard to believe that all of those millions will stay nonviolent. So what exactly is our plan?

It's always some kids need public schools to escape abusive parents, and never some kids need homeschooling to escape abusive schools, even though in reality both are true.

Australia could be foreshadowing what we will be seeing in the northern hemisphere but our governments have decided to just let it rip pretending that the pandemic is over.
#COVID

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/sa-public-hospitals-in-internal-emergency/103915690

May 30, 2024- “SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with an increase in new diagnoses of schizophrenia spectrum and psychotic disorder: A study using the US national COVID cohort collaborative (N3C)” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295891

Does the US have a planned economy? You might be surprised.

TL;DR: Yes, but by a handful of corporations, not by government.

#democracy

https://theconversation.com/does-the-us-have-a-planned-economy-you-might-be-surprised-228765

> New research finds that the top 1% of American companies control 90% of U.S. production-related assets and account for 80% of sales revenue. This means a relatively small number of companies are responsible for the majority of U.S. economic activity.

hi everyone, does anyone know of a beginner-friendly 'ethical hacking' course? i'm fairly new to the topic and feeling a bit overwhelmed, so i'm looking for something that's easy to understand and start with. thanks!! :)

#ethicalhacking #hacking #CyberSecurity

It turns out that indoor #gardening can help boost immune systems. #Science #Health #COVID19 https://www.ecowatch.com/urban-indoor-gardening-immune-health-soil-microbes.html

Soon the telescope platform at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile will look very different at night: all four of the 8.2 m telescopes of the VLT will be equipped with lasers! This is one of the ongoing upgrades of the GRAVITY+ instrument, which will allow us to study black holes, stars and planets like never before.

Find out more in this great article by current and former ESO communication interns Elena Reiriz Martinez and Tom Howarth: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/gravity-leap-vlti/

#astrodon #astronomy #technology

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat | Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

I've been asked by a reviewer to calculate effect sizes for various tests we have in a paper. This is fine in the 2 sample case and makes sense to me, but for some of the analyses we use Levene's test to check for heteroscedasticity between \(k\) groups. The internet suggests that I calculate pairwise effect sizes between the groups, but this feels odd to me. Has anyone done this before and can provide any guidance? Thanks in advance!

#rstats

I've seen discussion around several in-person only events lately, where the organisers justify it by saying they can't get the best quality of conversation online.

Well, you can't get any of my conversation at an event I can't get to.

An in-person event that you have to travel to excludes people with caring responsibilities, disabilities, and limited funds.

"The big revelation here is that the risk persists for 3 years in several organ systems (e.g. GI and nervous system) even 3 years after a mild infection.

Healthcare professionals are taught that acute infections as short-term events with health effects that manifest around the time of infection.

The data challenges those teachings and shows that mild #Covid can still cause health effects even 3 years later.

Acute infections can have long-term health effects.

Covid continues to teach us something new at every turn and this is one very important new lesson.

Why is this be happening?

Possibly viral persistence (perhaps far more common than most people think), chronic inflammation or chronic immune dysfunction or all the above. ...

I want to make it clear that most people with Long Covid had mild COVID-19.

In fact, 90% of people with #LongCovid had mild
#COVID19. "

- Ziyad Al-Aly