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I kind of disregarded this yesterday when I first saw it, because Pitt has been sort of in the front of a lot of this all along (I'm guessing they've gotten tons of funding since Salk developed the polio vaccine there), so there has been a "breakthrough" reported every few weeks, that isn't really something.

Hell at one point a grad student involved in the research was murdered, and local news speculated whether it was related, when it turns out he was cheating on his live in girlfriend, and his lover murdered him.

But I'm seeing this getting national footing today.  Very promising.

The best take I saw was:

"This seems right, Pitt is going to defeat COVID this week, and then lose to an ear infection next week"

you seem pretty pessimistic 

Huh?  I literally said "very promising"

ok great


I was referring to your last line and I guess I took it wrong

ya see what happens, Larry?

Was someone trying to find a stranger in the Alps?

ok great


I was referring to your last line and I guess I took it wrong

No, it's a Pitt football joke.  How they'll beat Clemson, and turn around and lose to Youngstown State

So, here's one major problem with attempting to use our health system's processes and IT systems to evaluate the health impact of this virus in real time-- systems and processes that were never, EVER intended to provide real-time data.  In the past, testing for viruses causing flu or cold, have only been looked at in real time for getting the individual his or her results, to determine medical treatment and course of action.  Beyond that, the back-end logging, processing, aggregating, and reporting of those test results at a municipal, county, state, or national level, were only ever used for researching larger trends either months, or years, after the fact.

But now, municipalities, counties, and states are attempting to use that data in real time, to determine such things as restaurant and store openings, risk of large gatherings, and many other factors that have significant social and economic impact.  And as we know, that data can be misleading, or flat-out wrong.

Like this:


https://twitter.com/LisaGray_HouTX/status/1305966120852238339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305966120852238339%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_2&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surlyhorns.com%2Fboard%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FLisaGray_HouTX%2Fstatus%2F1305966120852238339

So, here's one major problem with attempting to use our health system's processes and IT systems to evaluate the health impact of this virus in real time-- systems and processes that were never, EVER intended to provide real-time data.  

well, maybe something good will come of this
an upgrade!

I'm pretty sure utee and I can agree that they need to buy lots of servers and storage!

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