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@zafrada Jan 7, 2023, 1:44 AM UTC

FDA approves lecanemab under its accelerated approval.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-grants-accelerated-approval-alzheimers-disease-treatment Accelerated approval allows for approval if a drug fills an unmet need for a serious c…

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@zafrada Jan 6, 2023, 12:35 AM UTC

Going to 12 rounds. Only 4 speakership votes have gone on longer than this in the entire history of the House.

His speakership still is likely dead for the time being, but we may see fewer votes against him today. In any case if he does pull off the impossible here he's going to be essentially a Speaker in na…

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zafrada
@zafrada Jan 5, 2023, 12:38 AM UTC

The militarization of American society since WW2.

I've been reading this new book called "In Search of Monsters.." and it discusses at length, the militarization of American society since WW2. One way I think that has become increasingly obvious is…

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zafrada
@zafrada Jan 4, 2023, 12:51 AM UTC

GDPNow still not calling for recession.

This economy is seemingly refusing to follow the punditry calling for a recession. GDPNow's nowcast expects Q4 GDP to come in at 3.9%. Just a little over 3 weeks until the actual GDP release. There's…

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zafrada
@zafrada Jan 3, 2023, 1:28 AM UTC

Omicron sub-varian XBB.1.5 becomes dominant strain.

The new Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 is now 40.5% of new cases in the US. It was half that last week. In the northeast it is as much as 75% of new cases. Not much is known about this sub-variant. It i…

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zafrada
@zafrada Jan 2, 2023, 12:00 AM UTC

One small change with potentially big consequences.

Health is among the most common new years resolutions people will make in 2023. And that means you are likely to see a fresh influx of people begin their working out journeys. To that end, encourage…

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@zafrada Jan 1, 2023, 1:37 AM UTC

Millennials are not getting more conservative as they age.

I shared data on this for the US before, but here's some UK data as well. You can see it via ideological self-identification as well. There's of course plenty of time for things to change, but what w…

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@zafrada Dec 31, 2022, 2:41 AM UTC

Pros and cons of capitalism and maybe some new definitions.

My friend and I were talking about the pros and cons of capitalism and we realized that we mean totally different things by "capitalism." So we decided to coin two new words to replace the ambiguous…

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@zafrada Dec 30, 2022, 1:43 AM UTC

So far, no new variants have emerged from China.

https://gisaid.org/ China isn't doing a lot of genomic surveillance, but of the submissions to GISAID so far no new variants have emerged from China's current outbreak. Just circulating Omicron sub-v…

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@zafrada Dec 29, 2022, 12:24 AM UTC

This dude is tiresome.

This isn't how any of this works. Christine Grady is the head of bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center. It is a completely separate unit from the NIAID, where Fauci is the director. The NIAID has its…

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