If rebirth is real and if I can choose one skill in my next birth, it would be to write like Siddhartha Mukherjee

[BacktoCricaddict]

Like in India, CoViD-19 mortality rates and symptom severities are lower in many African nations compared to the West.  Mukherjee tries to answer.  If you are looking for a single, all-encompassing answer, read no further.   

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/why-does-the-pandemic-seem-to-be-hitting-some-countries-harder-than-others

 

While the virus has ravaged rich nations, reported death rates in poorer ones remain relatively low. What probing this epidemiological mystery can tell us about global health.

 

 

 

 

[Vilander]

boring read had to drag myself beyond the first 5 lines, just a collection of facts.  ( was concerned for the the venerable engineer). Scrolled down to the last para and found mr Ganguly is safe.    According to this guy India has a rickety, ad-hoc public-health infrastructure. 

[BacktoCricaddict]

3 minutes ago, Vilander said:

boring read had to drag myself beyond the first 5 lines, just a collection of facts.  ( was concerned for the the venerable engineer). Scrolled down to the last para and found mr Ganguly is safe.    According to this guy India has a rickety, ad-hoc public-health infrastructure. 

To each their own, I guess.  Facts are important.  He lays them out and then connects them to make some good arguments. 

 

This guy is a highly accomplished oncologist and public-health researcher (give his book "Emperor of all Maladies" a try), and is not wrong about India's public-health infrastructure.  He is equally critical of the American healthcare system for their shortcomings.  He knows his stuff.  It is easy to be reflexively defensive when someone criticizes something in my country, but that is counter-productive.  

[Vilander]

27 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

then connects them to make some good arguments. 

please summarize i dont have the attention span to get to the connections. 

[Vilander]

29 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

something in my country

i am not Indian national btw. But yeah will always defend India.

Edited April 6, 2021 by Vilander

[coffee_rules]

3 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

To each their own, I guess.  Facts are important.  He lays them out and then connects them to make some good arguments. 

 

This guy is a highly accomplished oncologist and public-health researcher (give his book "Emperor of all Maladies" a try), and is not wrong about India's public-health infrastructure.  He is equally critical of the American healthcare system for their shortcomings.  He knows his stuff.  It is easy to be reflexively defensive when someone criticizes something in my country, but that is counter-productive.  

Sorry, Too prosy for a  man of science. After a few pages, it was like he considered all facts and also ruled them out. I had to give up as none were conclusive. I thought he had the answers, but he didn’t in the end. This summarized the article for me.

 

”Joshi was reluctant to speculate further about differences in immune reservoirs among populations: “It could be T cells, or it could be some other aspect of the immune response. But we are definitely seeing signs of it in India.”

 

”Above all, what’s needed is humility in the face of an intricately evolving body of evidence. The pandemic could well drift or shift into something that defies our best efforts to model and characterize it. As Patrick Walker, of Imperial College London, stressed, “New strains will change the numbers and infectiousness even further.” That quilt itself may change its shape.”

 

I was like in the end

 

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by coffee_rules

[BacktoCricaddict]

22 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Sorry, Too prosy for a  man of science. After a few pages, it was like he considered all facts and also ruled them out. I had to give up as none were conclusive. I thought he had the answers, but he didn’t in the end. This summarized the article for me.

 

”Joshi was reluctant to speculate further about differences in immune reservoirs among populations: “It could be T cells, or it could be some other aspect of the immune response. But we are definitely seeing signs of it in India.”

 

”Above all, what’s needed is humility in the face of an intricately evolving body of evidence. The pandemic could well drift or shift into something that defies our best efforts to model and characterize it. As Patrick Walker, of Imperial College London, stressed, “New strains will change the numbers and infectiousness even further.” That quilt itself may change its shape.”

 

I was like in the end

 

 

Nuance, Anna.  Biology is not pretty.

[coffee_rules]

5 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Nuance, Anna.  Biology is not pretty.

I am used to problems and clear solutions, like mathematics and physics. Biology was not my forte. I like “Apne ghabrana nahin hain “ type of articles.

[BacktoCricaddict]

9 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

I am used to problems and clear solutions, like mathematics and physics. Biology was not my forte. I like “Apne ghabrana nahin hain “ type of articles.

Which is why, in Biology, we need large sample sizes, statistical analyses, and reproducible results before we can cut through all the variability and say something is a phenomenon.  

[Khota]

Rebirth is not real. Tough my religion tells me it is. Move on.

[sandeep]

On 4/6/2021 at 3:37 PM, BacktoCricaddict said:

Like in India, CoViD-19 mortality rates and symptom severities are lower in many African nations compared to the West.  Mukherjee tries to answer.  If you are looking for a single, all-encompassing answer, read no further.   

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/why-does-the-pandemic-seem-to-be-hitting-some-countries-harder-than-others

 

While the virus has ravaged rich nations, reported death rates in poorer ones remain relatively low. What probing this epidemiological mystery can tell us about global health.

 

 

 

 

Finally got around to reading this.  Wouldn't have if not for this thread.  Thanks!

[Vilander]

On 4/8/2021 at 4:54 PM, sandeep said:

Finally got around to reading this.  Wouldn't have if not for this thread.  Thanks!

Pls summarise the information when you can i asked the op but i guess he could not read it in full so didn't respond, no wonder it appears to be one of the most witless dry writing style I have seen in my life. But please get the info out its an important topic. 

[randomGuy]

1 hour ago, Vilander said:

Pls summarise the information when you can i asked the op but i guess he could not read it in full so didn't respond, no wonder it appears to be one of the most witless dry writing style I have seen in my life. But please get the info out its an important topic. 

I think you are worth this much much that someone types a summary for you. 

[Mariyam]

I would love to write like Oscar Wilde. 

And Jhumpa Lahiri

Edited April 10, 2021 by Mariyam

[coffee_rules]

I want to sing like MRafi, Sonu Nigam, Arijit NFAK, RFAK and Ghulam Ali in my next few births.

[jf1gp_1]

All of you are idiots. I want to be born Ambani then I will have people who will praise even the way I $h!t.