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The first study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association Cardiology, looked at the cardiac MRIs of 100 relatively young patients who had recovered from COVID-19 and compared them to MRIs of 100 similar people who had not contracted the disease. Two-thirds of the patients recovered at home.

Two months following their recovery, 78 infected patients were found to have structural changes to their hearts. A biomarker indicating myocardial injury similar to that occurring in heart attacks was found in 76 patients. Sixty patients suffered inflammation of the heart.

The average age of the infected patients was 49. None had previous heart issues or other pre-existing conditions; in fact, many were skiers returning from vacation.

The second study, also published in JAMA Cardiology on Monday, examined autopsy reports from 39 people, 78 to 89 years old, who died in April. Analysis of cardiac tissue revealed the virus had infiltrated the hearts of 24 of the patients.

The studies’ results appeared to validate concerns expressed earlier this month by John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology in the the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.

“There is evidence now that the virus can directly attack heart muscle cells, and there’s also evidence that the cytokine storm that the virus triggers in the body not only damages the lungs, but can damage the heart,” Swartzberg told Berkeley News. “We don’t know what the long-term effects of that may be, but it could be that we will have a population of people who survive COVID-19 only to go on and have chronic cardiac problems.”

Among those problems are chronic heart failure, a progressive illness in which the heart slowly becomes less able to pump blood throughout the body.

AndreTheGiantBoned posted:

He mistook Fahr-Spur-Ende for Farhrspurende, as in Flüchtende or Lehrende

MonikaTSarn posted:

I find this study questionable. How did they not mention at all the substandard living conditions the workers were in, or the cantina video ? Maybe workers on the same shift together were eating together as well, were being transported in to small vans to their homes together ?

Researchers posted:

Positive rates were statistically significant only for a single shared apartment and associated carpool (a1 and c3), and a shared bedroom (r5). The fact that 5 of 7 members in a1/c3, and 2 out of 3 members in r5 have fixed work stations within the 8m area (Supplementary Table S3), however, suggests that high infection rates in these units primarily reflect the number of group members who work in close proximity of the index case, rather than resulting from independent infection chains within the units themselves.

Researchers posted:

Description of housing conditions, work area conditions, and working conditions
Housing conditions: Many of the workers share apartments and those usually commute together to their workplace in vans organized by the company. The company provided us with anonymized information about the housing situation of the workers regarding information on shared apartments, bedrooms and carpools. The largest housing unit encompassed seven workers for the initial outbreak in month 1 in the beef processing plant.
...
During breaks, the workers from a shift visit the canteen. Workers do not have fixed seats in the canteen. Supervisory staff does not spend the break times together with the production line workers. The supervisors do not share housing or transport facilities with the production line workers.

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Similarly, for each shared unit in Fig. 3C and Supplementary Table
S3 we calculated p-values for infection frequencies being equal or higher than observed among all
individuals who share one or more unit (22 out of 65 = 33.8%; please note that due to data protection
regulations we cannot reveal which worker IDs belong to a shared unit).

GABA ghoul posted:

All this new information makes the US' decision to go full Plague Nation slightly questionable

aphid_licker posted:

Millions of people trying to cope with their chronic damage under the conditions of the US healthcare system is going to drive the next wave of deaths of despair.

Mithaldu posted:

Well, for the moment this is the wall the USA is driving straight at.

Not having a house.

Mithaldu posted:

Well, for the moment this is the wall the USA is driving straight at.

Not having a house.

Smirr posted:

That's the split by apartment / carpool / etc. group. Look at r5, their one "significant" result. That's a sample size of three. Except there are repeated measurements (which makes everything a lot worse, although with a sample size of three it doesn't matter - it's all noise anyway). And you don't even know what the baseline for each group is, because:

With sample sizes that low, and overlapping multiple comparisons (that they appear to not even have tried to adjust for), p-values are completely, absolutely meaningless. They always are, but in this specific example, they are straight garbage. My advice, take the raw data (which is mostly meaningless because of the data protection issues - you don't know which positive tests occurs twice or more times in which specific groups) and ignore any significance thresholds. The proximity data from Figure 3a is the one thing in this paper I would say is useful (but it's also something we already knew). Figure 3c is (3b too, but that's such horseshit I didn't even try to parse it)

Mithaldu posted:

Well, for the moment this is the wall the USA is driving straight at.

Not having a house.

Wipfmetz posted:

So "37% AK" means "37% of renter households in Alaska are at risk of eviction"?
What's the percentage of renter vs owner households in the US?

Wipfmetz posted:

So "37% AK" means "37% of renter households in Alaska are at risk of eviction"?
What's the percentage of renter vs owner households in the US?

DTurtle posted:

Hmm, it would be interesting to know the "normal" numbers for that (pre-Corona). I can imagine it was already quite high.

Roughly 2/3 owner, 1/3 renter.

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In 2016, there were 2.3 million evictions, Pollock said. “There could be that many evictions in August,” he said.

Mithaldu posted:

GABA ghoul posted:

Wanna hold every smug idiot's face from 2016 who yammered about how it doesn't matter who is president or who controls Congress(~they are all the same~) into that huge pile of poo poo.

Probably still dreaming about that sweet gay space communism that they'll get through accelerationism when the much more likely outcome is a decade of semi-apocalypse and then a pivot to open mega-authoritarianism, ultra-corruption and hyper-capitalism like Russia in the 90s. Or even just straight up decent into some hosed up nationalist totalitarianism à la Weimar.

GABA ghoul posted:

Wanna hold every smug idiot's face from 2016 who yammered about how it doesn't matter who is president or who controls Congress(~they are all the same~) into that huge pile of poo poo.

Probably still dreaming about that sweet gay space communism that they'll get through accelerationism when the much more likely outcome is a decade of semi-apocalypse and then a pivot to open mega-authoritarianism, ultra-corruption and hyper-capitalism like Russia in the 90s. Or even just straight up decent into some hosed up nationalist totalitarianism á la Weimar.

GABA ghoul posted:

Wanna hold every smug idiot's face from 2016 who yammered about how it doesn't matter who is president or who controls Congress(~they are all the same~) into that huge pile of poo poo.

Probably still dreaming about that sweet gay space communism that they'll get through accelerationism when the much more likely outcome is a decade of semi-apocalypse and then a pivot to open mega-authoritarianism, ultra-corruption and hyper-capitalism like Russia in the 90s. Or even just straight up decent into some hosed up nationalist totalitarianism à la Weimar.

oliwan posted:

lots of posters in c spam who refuse to vote for biden

Mr. Lobe posted:

Name an evil thing the US does. I guarantee you it will continue under Biden, only with more crocodile tears.

elbkaida posted:

Note that it would've been Clinton, not Biden, in your examples. Also I think you shouldn't underestimate the ability of any US president to be completely terrible when it comes to foreign policy.

Healbot posted:

If history had started in 2016 for you this might’ve been surprising, but strategic allies stop being allies when the strategy changes.

Mithaldu posted:

Is this your opinion on the Rojava situation?

Mr. Lobe posted:

Name an evil thing the US does. I guarantee you it will continue under Biden, only with more crocodile tears.

DTurtle posted:

However, 3B doesn't look that bad? Its a comparison of the actual distribution of infection vs distance in comparison to the expected distribution if distance didn't play a role.

Torrannor posted:

Isn't it accurate? The previous strategy was to contain Assad/Russia by keeping the Kurds semi-independent. Trump loves Russia so the strategy changed, and the Kurds ceased to be strategic allies, so they were left to fend for themselves. I don't think that would have happened under Clinton.

This nicely sidesteps the issue whether Clinton would have been fine with genocide in general.

GABA ghoul posted:

And if I do, will you stop doing that bit? Probably not, so what's the point?

e: eh, what the hell: Taking the second largest CO2 emitter in the world out of the Paris Climate Agreement

Mithaldu posted:

The USA tried to gently caress around with the korean peninsula in massively inept ways. Wouldn't have happened under Biden.

The USA worsened relationships with Cuba. Wouldn't have happened under Biden.

The USA betrayed the Kurds and singlehandedly kickstarted a genocide. That absolutely wouldn't have happened under Biden.

(And i sure hope you wouldn't be the type of person to claim that what the USA did to the Kurds wasn't a massive crime.)

If you're curious about such things, hit up @DylanBurns1776.

genericnick posted:

Mithaldu posted:

And pretending i treated it as equal is just ... feels like you had a conclusion about my post you wanted to be true really hard.

genericnick posted:

oliwan posted:

lots of posters in c spam who refuse to vote for biden

Mr. Lobe posted:

Name an evil thing the US does. I guarantee you it will continue under Biden, only with more crocodile tears.

Smirr posted: