I wish the doctors would wake up since they bare also considered disposable and will be gone by 2025 or 2030, whenever the vaccine-enabled surveillance state has its internal monitors in those left after the cull.
"Artificial intelligence could help ‘fine-tune’ vaccine priority lists, predict mortality, study reports" by Dasia Moore Globe Staff, February 4, 2021
Much of the debate around vaccine prioritization hinges on one question: Who faces the greatest risk of dying if they become infected with COVID-19? Thus far, it is a question without a definitive answer.
Age is one way to gauge risk, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending that people aged 75 and older be among the first members of the general public to have access to the vaccine, but in the next phase of distribution, as the CDC tries to factor in underlying medical conditions, the calculation becomes much more complex.
Artificial intelligence, when applied to standard patient medical records, can help untangle that web, a new study by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard researchers found.
More agenda-pushing propaganda pushing the dystopian medical tyranny, and this stuff is making me ill these days.
Using only information known before a patient’s COVID-19 infection — diagnosed health problems, medications, and basic demographic information — researchers were able to identify factors that predict a heightened risk of COVID-related death. Age emerged as the most important predictor, immediately followed by a history of pneumonia, a condition not currently listed in the CDC’s prioritization plan.
Oh, those who have had any time of common pneumonia are now a CV risk.
Time to check the records for when you are forced tested, citizen.
How in the world can this $cam stand?
“If we can predict [mortality] so well, based off of all these features that happen before individuals even get sick, this can really be applied in ways that I think are novel for an algorithm like this,” said Dr. Zachary Strasser, one of the study’s lead researchers, along with Hossein Estiri, an assistant professor of medicine at MGH and Harvard. “We can really think about who needs to get prioritized for limited resources, because these are the people that are probably going to do worse.”
If I didn't know better I would say they are death panels.
The CDC has recommended a phased approach to vaccine distribution, which states and communities can modify as they see fit. Health care workers, long-term-care facility residents, front-line essential workers, and people 75 and older were first in line.
From there, the CDC recommends vaccinating all people over 65 and younger people with underlying medical conditions known to increase risk of serious COVID-19 infection or death. While the CDC maintains a list of such conditions, its website emphasizes that it is incomplete and subject to change.
Strasser and Estiri say their research could help refine those recommendations.
Exactly what I said it is then.
The study, published Thursday in Nature, is based on analysis of electronic health records for 16,709 COVID-19 patients — data shared securely through Mass General Brigham’s Center for COVID Innovation.
Nothing is secure anymore, especially from data-collecting A.I.
Using artificial intelligence, the team narrowed tens of thousands of potential variables to 46 clinical conditions and a handful of demographic features likely to impact mortality. Of these, 18 features were consistently associated with increased risk of mortality.
Age proved to be most significant, but when zeroing in on people of similar ages, the importance of age within a given group varied.
The second-most important factor, a history of pneumonia, was “shocking” to researchers, Strasser said. Since pneumonia is not usually classified as a chronic condition, it is rarely considered in epidemiological models, making this one of the first studies to tie past pneumonia infection to COVID-19 mortality.
Oh, no, more agenda-pushing models deciding our fate!
Other important medical conditions were type 2 diabetes with complications, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease.
You can get one in Afghanistan if what I read is correct.
Another interesting finding was that risk associated with these conditions varied by age.
The study repeated findings that women have better odds of beating COVID-19 than men. Race and ethnicity, once other variables were accounted for, did not rank among the 18 variables most closely associated with risk.
How can race and ethnicity have nothing to do with it when after every turn we are told it is ubiquitous?
The study and its practical applications have limitations, its researchers acknowledge and other experts said.
Meaning it is worthless garbage.
The model’s integrity depends in part on the accuracy of patient medical records and diagnoses, and, given privacy and ethics concerns, it would be difficult to use a predictive model of this kind to determine the exact order in which individuals should receive vaccines.
“It’s just more evidence that the CDC could take to fine-tune their guidance about priority groups,” said Dr. David Hamer, an infectious disease expert at Boston Medical Center and Boston University who was not involved in the study.
Except it is NOT EVIDENCE at all!
Hamer said the study’s key findings should be used to update an understanding of COVID-19 mortality — in particular, the risk associated with a history of pneumonia and the suggestion that race and ethnicity on their own are not significant factors, once enough health conditions and other variables are taken into account.
What is "significant?"
Hamer said the model did not identify some known risk factors, including weight and body mass index, still, he said, the study demonstrates that artificial intelligence can help identify new high-risk comorbidities, especially in cases where a condition is rare or research is limited, and predictive models might be the best tools.
It's the comorbidities that did the people in in 94% of the cases, according to the CDC, so get out of the way as the death totals from CV itself crater.
Researchers said their model could have applications beyond vaccination planning.
Though built using complex computational methods, the model is easily adaptable, they said, and produces results quickly.
“We are facing a virus that is changing. It’s mutating. ... As the new mutations comes out, we can update our models. We can study long-haulers,” Estiri said, referring to those who recover from the initial symptoms of COVID-19 but face some long-term problems. “We’ve shown that we can quickly leverage this data to predict mortality.”
They are telling you who they are going to kill!
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"Baker vows teachers will get vaccine after current eligible groups are given shots" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, February 4, 2021
Governor Charlie Baker reiterated Thursday that school teachers across the state will be given the COVID-19 vaccine “right after” the current eligibility groups being inoculated, and stressed that schools are safe spaces amid the pandemic, if proper precautions are taken.
Baker made the comments in a briefing with reporters following a tour of Bentley Academy, a K-5 school in Salem.
“With respect to teachers, what I would say is the following,” Baker said. “The overwhelming evidence coming out of the gate for the committee that put together our strategy on vaccines said the first two things you should focus on are preserving life and protecting the health care system, and so, our primary focus coming out of the gate was to vaccinate as many hospital and long-term care and assisted living workers as we possibly could.”
That push, he said, was followed by a focus on staff and residents at skilled nursing facilities, first responders, people aged 75 and older, and people with multiple comorbidities, among other priority groups.
“Teachers are in the first group of what I would describe as other employees, essential workers,” Baker said. “Depending on how quickly we can get folks who are 75-plus and 65-plus and the folks with multiple comorbidities through the system, they come right after that,” Baker said, “but, it’s hard for me to understand when we look at the data and we talk to the experts that we should be organizing this in a way that’s any different than the way we set it up. I think we set it up with the right priorities.”
He said the vaccine rollout was “a harder lift coming out of the gate because of the distributed nature of a lot of the congregate care facilities and a lot of the folks in homeless shelters and all the rest, but I think we did the right thing there, but teachers are in the first group of what I would describe as defined employees who aren’t in the health care world or dealing directly with senior citizens and other folks with COVID illness every day.”
Teacher’s unions have criticized the Baker administration for not adding their members to the vaccine eligibility list sooner. On Thursday, Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, said vaccinating teachers “will enable more schools to educate more students in person, but it is not the sole mitigation strategy required.”
She called on the state to approve a vaccination plan proposed by teachers’ unions that she said “would facilitate the speedy vaccination of school staff at the local level,” and for more state funding to support proper building ventilation, the provision of face masks, and safe social distancing in school settings.
How could the teachers be so stupid?
Meanwhile, we are being told transmission is rare in schools, so get the kids back in there so they can be kidnapped by the pettofile perverts!
Separately Thursday, Baker during the briefing said that a weekly pool testing program “will make a big difference” in helping schools operate safely. He and other officials have repeatedly said in-person learning goes hand-in-hand with safety measures such as distancing and face coverings.
“I do think for many of the districts that pursue the weekly COVID testing policy, that will make a big difference,” Baker said, “because not only will they be regularly testing the kids and staff and teachers in the facility, but we also now have access” to the BinaxNOW rapid tests “that will make it possible for people to be identified quickly if they have kids or adults in a particular class for whom there’s an issue.”
That way they can create any case crisis they want and isolate the kids from you!
During a later State House briefing Thursday, Baker marveled at the creative teaching methods he witnessed earlier in the day in Salem, including one teacher who’d advised a system to teach the kids she called her “Zoomers,” or those learning remotely, and her “Roomers,” or those learning in person, seamlessly at the same time, “and I think the thing I took away from our visit there is, if you really want to make this happen, and you are willing to try, and to be creative, and to take advantage of the resources and the guidance that’s available out there, you can get a lot of this done,” Baker said, “and if pool testing helps a bunch of folks bring kids back into the classroom and move forward, I do think that can set an example that others can follow.”
How many kids will be lost along the way, governor?
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Just wait until the kid grows up:
"Salve Regina orders students to shelter-in-place, moves to remote learning after spike in COVID-19 cases; The university said some students are failing to comply with basic social gathering guidelines" by Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff, February 4, 2021
NEWPORT, R.I. — Salve Regina University has transitioned to remote learning for the next two weeks due to a recent spike in coronavirus cases among students.
On Wednesday night, the university sent out an e-mail to students, faculty, and staff saying they identified more than 30 positive cases of coronavirus among the undergraduate population in the last seven days.
According to Matthias Boxler, the university’s spokesman, most of the new cases are attributable to prior cases.
“This indicates a breakdown in student adherence to our guidelines for safe social-distancing, mask wearing, and social gathering limits,” said Boxler in an e-mail Thursday morning.
Boxler said the university is not singling out one large gathering or party as the cause, but during contact tracing efforts, they found that the number of close contacts students had jumped with the number of new positive cases, and the emergency management team at the university was compelled to issue an urgent shelter-in-place order.
“This shelter-in-place order is a direct result of some students failing to comply with basic social gathering guidelines, and the seriousness of this situation cannot be overstated,“ read the e-mail sent to the Salve community. “Further spread of the virus within our campus community may compel Salve Regina to take additional measures, including the closing of campus.”
Close it down forever for all I care.
Salve, which transitioned to online learning last semester when Governor Gina M. Raimondo issued a statewide pause period shortly after Thanksgiving, had a track record of relatively low positive cases. Boxler said this is the first “pause” or “shelter-in-place” order the university has issued on campus.
They think it's a $ilver bullet.
Last semester, the university reported 63 total positive cases for COVID-19 out of 7,443 tests conducted for a positivity rate of less than 1 percent.
They are closing it all down over that, huh?
Get the kid the hell out of there NOW!
According to the university’s COVID-19 testing online dashboard, there have been no staff, faculty, or contracted employees who have tested positive in the last week.
The shelter-in-place began at 10 p.m. on Feb. 3 and will remain in effect until at least 5 a.m. on Feb. 16.
All undergraduate students, including off-campus students, must remain in their residences unless they need to leave for essential items or to receive a COVID-19 test, and a curfew will be in place from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily, according to the university’s guidelines.
Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life, kids.
It's your future. You need to fight this.
Of course, they have all been brainwashed by the $chools that this is for the good.
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I don't know, the Globe stopped checking on them. From what I heard, they hope one day they are free again.
Also see:
He is now being charged with hate speech for it, and what does that mean when a war-criminal-in-chief and his nation and pre$$ launch wars on lies, huh?
Which is the more hateful?
Don't flee, because you will find no sanctuary here:
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"At UMass Amherst, students exposed to COVID-19 face stark quarantine options; Some sent to campus hotel, others to an aging apartment building" by Matt Berg Globe Correspondent, February 6, 2021
After she was exposed to COVID-19, UMass Amherst student Steph Miley thought she was going to spend her entire quarantine — nearly two weeks — in the hotel on campus. Like other quarantining students, she was supposed to have the comfort of two large beds, a television mounted to the wall, a pristine personal bathroom, and fresh bedding and towels, but university officials told Miley, a music major, she couldn’t play her saxophone in the hotel — where there are paying customers trying to sleep — so they sent her to the decidedly more spartan back-up: an empty apartment complex that was slated for demolition last year. The uniform brick buildings, more than 60 years old, were not able to be renovated due to “their age and condition,” university officials said.
The hotel on campus was built at taxpayer and tuition costs, and is for the elite coming through not you. I saw the advertisements for it ons television years ago.
“My new favorite jokes to make are about how umass put me into a roach infested abandoned apartment,” Miley tweeted during her stay at Lincoln Apartments in November.
Was soon taken down, and that should put the lie to the admini$tration $cum who say care about you.
For about 250 UMass students so far, exposure to COVID-19 has not been strictly a health matter. There’s also the question of where they’ll live during quarantine. Many go to the Campus Center Hotel, while others, including Miley, as well as everyone who tests positive for the virus, are sent to Lincoln, and, while university officials are relieved that the vacant apartments are available as a quarantine crash pad, some students who’ve stayed in them are considerably less grateful.
“It was the worst experience of my life,” Miley said in a phone interview following her stay in the apartment.
Oh, the TRAUMA of this LIE the GLOBE PROMOTED!
Now, as several thousand students return to campus and the surrounding area at the beginning of February for the first time, many more COVID-19-exposed students may soon find themselves alone in the Lincoln Apartments.
With a dingy appearance, invasive insects, and loud banging caused by old pipes in the walls, rooms at Lincoln Apartments aren’t far from the average college dorm room. They include a kitchenette with appliances — that often don’t work, according to several students interviewed — a personal bathroom, and some space to spread out, but quarantine isn’t like dorm life. There’s no roommate by your side to plan your day with and no friends down the hall to bother when you’re bored. Aside from taking the trash out once in a while, students in Lincoln Apartments are stuck there until they get a call to leave.
I'll bet they could do without the roaches, too.
Do I really have to highlight or comment?
What was the tuition cost this for hovel they now call home?
With the apartment complex sitting empty on the outskirts of campus, university officials saw a perfect opportunity for students to isolate from the community. The buildings were normally reserved for graduate student housing and include just over 100 units.
“The ideal location [for isolation] is somewhere with a bedroom and a bathroom — just think of it as a hotel room,” said Jeff Hescock, executive director of emergency management, in a phone interview Monday morning. “We were able to delay the demolition of Lincoln Apartments to support this public health crisis.”
I'm sickeningly flabbergasted, readers.
The college thinks stashing students in a slum slated to be demolished is GREAT, even GRADUATE STUDENTS!
I'm surprised Marty didn't put him up at his waterfront condo.
Hope you LEARNED YOUR LESSON, wow!
I guess SAFETY CODES MEAN NOTHING in CERTAIN INSTANCES, huh?
If you are a parent with a kid at UMass, get them the hell out of their TODAY!
Many students choose to go home for their quarantine, but those who stay at UMass enjoy some perks regardless of which building they’re in. The entire stay — no matter the length — is free of cost to students, including four hot meals delivered to their doors every day. Students choose their food through an app set up by the university, fully equipped to meet any dietary restrictions. School employees call regularly to check in on students, and those who aren’t satisfied with their housing situation are offered to switch rooms, yet even with the service provided by the school, students struggled to find comfort in Lincoln Apartments – and wished they were sent to the hotel instead.
Of course, a great man once said nothing someone says before the word “but” (or yet, or still, or however, or all the other colorful synonyms the Globe uses to undercut its prior reporting) really counts (h/t), and adding this insult to it doesn't help.
The Globe telling you the slum is great!
Why not just get leashes and call the roaches pets, eh?
The hotel “is just is nicer all around,” said Grace Lucey, a junior at UMass. “Lincoln was supposed to be demolished because it was, like, condemned.”
Lucey tested negative twice for COVID-19 before being sent to the apartments. Her stay lasted a harrowing 18 days due to confusion surrounding her test results that kept her in quarantine for an extra week.
Wait a minute.
If she TESTED NEGATIVE, WHY WAS SHE QUARANTINED AT ALL!??
Lucey said that the refrigerator wasn’t working, so she kept her food cold by leaving it outside her door. Loud noises caused by pipes could be heard every few minutes, and she found nine cockroaches over the period of her stay. Lucey said she voiced these concerns to the UMass workers who called daily to check in, but the issues were never fixed.
A maintenance worker whom Lucey spoke with outside the building told her “they weren’t going to fix anything because the buildings would be demolished,” she said.
Then why are kids living in them?
The elite hotel always full now?
How could it be with paying customers?
Students who stay in Lincoln Apartments also have to bring their own bedding and towels, as well as cookware if they want to use the kitchenette. Those in the hotel don’t have a place to cook, but not all students had completely negative experiences in the outdated apartments. Lydia Carroll, who tested positive in December, said she was glad to have a place where she could recover safely without exposing her family.
“Like, it is a concrete block and you have to bring everything there yourself,” said Carroll, “but I could imagine a worse place to be in quarantine,” and Carroll loved the food. As Hescock said, “it’s not just throwing together a bologna and cheese sandwich and saying ‘that’s it,’ ” but Miley, a vegan, said she was sometimes given food containing meat, including what she thought to be vegan chicken parmesan — the bag was labeled vegan, as well as the ingredients list. She learned the chicken was real meat after she ate the meal. “I threw up and felt so sick,” she said.
The only worse place I could imagine was a prison, and that's exactly what their stay looks like -- even worse, what with meals delivered to the door.
Meanwhile, the hotel lived up to its luxurious expectations.
“I’m just happy to be in the hotel, it’s really nice,” said Camrie Baams, a student who stayed in the hotel for two weeks following an exposure, in a phone interview in November.
One of the lucky ones.
With over 5,000 additional students coming to campus in the spring semester, the number of on-campus quarantine and isolation rooms — which include dorms in select residence halls — will increase to accommodate about 600 students at one time, Hescock said. Between 7,000 and 8,000 students are estimated to be living off campus in the spring.
“If they could put more kids in the freaking hotel, that would be great,” Carroll said, laughing. “Overall, I was just happy to have a space where I knew everyone was safe from me, and they didn’t make me pay.”
For the most part, students and parents have been grateful for their time in Lincoln Apartments, university officials said.
The roaches don't bother them, huh?
“You’re going to get four free meals a day [and] you’re not paying to go to a hotel,” Hescock said. “We’ve received lots of nice thank you notes from parents who didn’t want [their children] to go home or be with roommates.”
May not be wait you wanted or needed, but eat the rule anyway.
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That was the photograph that came in print, and it is simply EXPOSURE NOW?
Not ACTUALLY INFECTED or SICK, huh?
At least no one shot up the hotel, and you better hop on your bike and peddle away fast.
Time to clam up:
"Tens of thousands of surf clams washed up on Revere Beach and Nantasket Beach this past week, but officials said to think twice before making one a part of your lunch. The strong surf from last week’s nor’easter swept the clams onto the beaches, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries said in a statement. Parts of the state were slammed with more than 18 inches of snow during the storm that also caused thousands of people to lose power. Swarms of beachgoers and seagulls alike turned up to see the clams, some of which had shells close to a half-foot long, at Revere Beach Saturday. While surf clams can be harvested by hand and added to chowders and soups, or other dishes, the department said this batch is not safe for human consumption as both Revere Beach and Nantasket Beach remain closed to shellfishing because of bacterial contamination. Harvesting shellfish also generally requires a permit in Massachusetts, the department said. “Before collecting or harvesting shellfish from any area, DMF recommends you check with the local Shellfish Department and our website for permit requirements as well as the current area classification and status,” the statement said."
Yeah, right.
They don't want you taking them because the state is going to seize the supplies for themselves and starve you, because that is part of the plan.
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The Globe asks if you have ever been terrorized by the likes of an aggressive turkey, and I fear I detest these kind of stories now, sorry.
Is that a joke or not, and will she be getting tax loot for the production?
