I especially liked: “The World Health Org. said dogs can’t get Covid. Dogs previously quarantined can be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.“
Another favorite on that page is “Some doggos aren’t built for the obstacle course. Wait for it…” That link is no longer working but the video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFMCbO43jM.
See them all: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/funniest-tweets-cats-dogs-july-17-23_n_60faebbbe4b0733516263be4
If this post persuades one person to get vaccinated, it’s worth it.
Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover. Some of the others are dying.
“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
“A few days later when I call time of death,” continued Cobia on Facebook, “I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.”
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can’t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine.”
Full article: https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-sorry-but-its-too-late-alabama-doctor-on-treating-unvaccinated-dying-covid-patients.html.
We (with the help of artificial intelligence) are more and more able to find exactly the right chemical to attack an individual’s cancer. This article looks like an excellent overview of the state of the art, the possible future of precision treatments, and the obstacles.
Doctors are taking a far more nuanced view of what drugs and treatments will work on which patients and on what different kinds of cancers. The idea of this so-called precision medicine, or personalized medicine, is that ultimately doctors will use genetic tests—of both the patient and the cancer tumor—to determine the exact drugs or treatments that have the best chance of working.
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To wring useful insights out of the data from 170,000 cancer patients that Caris has access to, the company enlists hundreds of different deep-learning algorithms. The programs essentially compete with one another to find patterns in the data that indicate which drugs will work best with which patients. “Different algorithms will miss different patients, but together they can do a better job,” says Spetzler.
Frequently horrifying, often reassuring, sometimes uplifting. Stories of bad customers, bad service, and sometimes happy endings. I’ve been bingeing on this for a week:
Laugh / learn links log 