Maybe in third-world countries. In the USA, when it happens, that company goes under the FDA’s microscope and stays there. The oversight doesn’t go away. For example, recently for contaminated Diovan/Valsartan. Upon discovery in 2018, the Chinese generic maker Zhejiang Huahai went under the scope. Then Mylan, Novartis, Teva and about a dozen others. All went under the scope to clean up their messes and get the NDMA out of the pipeline. And that oversight won’t ever stop. It will forever be part of those companies’ regular reporting for that substance.
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Of course, even if the White House was right (which they aren’t), the trend in medicine has been to move away from naming diseases after the people or places they originate from precisely because of its tendency to stoke exactly the racist and othering attitudes that the White House is trying to amplify. There are scientific and colloquial names for this virus and the disease it causes that do not “blame” China for it, but the White House and right-wing media are refusing to use them because they don’t fit their desired racist narrative.
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This is why I am happy our gov’t allocated $$ for women’s shelters as part of the relief plan - domestic abuse is going to be much more of a problem and there will be less ways to escape it available with all this going on.
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Oh, my sweet summer child. The point was to give the Donor Class our money. The rest was just window dressing. The Democrats gave their usual Susan Collins impression by saying they would do something for us and then “triangulating” and being “pragmatic” to fuck us without the common courtesy of a reach-around
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I’m asymptotic right now!
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White House Doctor: We Need Millennials To Stay Healthy Because They Know How To Speedrun Video Games
During today’s White House press conference the Trump administration’s Coronavirus Task Force response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, called on millenials to take the threat of infection more seriously. Why? Because they are “part of that group that brought us innovation, particularly throughout all of their ability to look around corners and skip through games.”
“I always went level by level,” Birx said. “I didn’t realize you could go from level three to level seven—that’s what they’ve taught us. They look for things that we don’t see, we need them to be healthy.” It’s unclear which game Birx was talking about. Maybe Super Mario Bros. 3 .
No, this is not satire. Yes, she really said that.
(12:50)
Edit: NBC trimmed the video down, so I’ve updated the time code.
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I hope they catch the French Pox. (The French called it the Spanish disease, and so on…)
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Do asymptotic people have a good tan? Eh, eh?
(The joke being that the tan function has asymptotes at +/- π/2)
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If you have to explain a joke… 
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That joke makes me lie down on a cot. At least you’ll see the sines. Cos otherwise the trig puns will keep coming.
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But, how do we get the virus to play the game?
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Youch! And I though British toilet paper was rough.
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Reading the paper is worth it. They are making some assumptions to model the ongoing outbreak, and they do so on a scientific basis.
We assumed an incubation period of 5.1 days. Infectiousness is assumed to occur from 12 hours
prior to the onset of symptoms for those that are symptomatic and from 4.6 days after infection in
those that are asymptomatic with an infectiousness profile over time that results in a 6.5-day mean
generation time. Based on fits to the early growth-rate of the epidemic in Wuhan, we make a
baseline assumption that R0=2.4 but examine values between 2.0 and 2.6. We assume that
symptomatic individuals are 50% more infectious than asymptomatic individuals. Individual
infectiousness is assumed to be variable, described by a gamma distribution with mean 1 and shape
parameter =0.25. On recovery from infection, individuals are assumed to be immune to re-infection
in the short term.
These assumptions are state of science, as far as I know. But tweak one of these parameters, and your model might have different results.
Some of them quite worse.
Some the reverse.
Let us hope the assumptions are based on negatively biased data.
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Couldn’t help but notice, as well, that she referred to the “medical industry” not the medical profession or medical staff/personnel. That’s a little peek into her world view right there.
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If you can produce an example where this has actually happened, of the magnitude of the Valsartan example, I will listen with an open mind.
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The fuck?
The list of nominations for moments when this timeline has finally jumped the shark keeps growing.
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You can hardly be blamed for approaching your limits.
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