Benjamin Shaya

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You could just run two calculations, one with the number of people vaxxed and one with the number of people unvaxxed, and sum the results. Or use the Risk Tracker...

We already have an option for specifying that people are vaccinated (only available in regions where we have local vaccine data, and only for "random person" profile). For rapid tests,...

> I haven't found any good studies looking at this directly, but based on studies that indirectly look at this my best guess is something like a 5x risk reduction...

Noodling on it more, the LFT's 44% asymptomatic false negative rate is vs RT-PCR, which means the person is already shedding detectable amounts of virus. If the person is just...

https://www.fda.gov/media/138096/download limit of detection for the Aptima® SARS-CoV-2 Assay is 16 cp/ml https://www.fda.gov/media/136049/download same for Roche Cobas. These two seem to be the gold standard for clinical trials for new...

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JCM.02880-20 Further mentions that Binax Now's test is equivalent to RT pcr with a CT of 30 and live virus can be cultured down to a CT of 34. My...

> @blanchardjeremy By "support both" I mean write frontend code that supports either format in the `location.ts` file (which would involve casework: parse it to a number if it's a...

The paper we cited for risk reduction from a hepa filter tested opening windows in a classroom and reported negligible change in particles counted. I've since seen statements to the...

That strategy makes some sense for 3 months, but what do you do afterwards? After 3-6 months, your immunity would start to wane, so if you want to avoid giving...