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Booster shots are ‘not appropriate’ at this time, U.S. and international scientists conclude

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>An expert review of scientific evidence has concluded that Covid vaccine booster shots are not needed at this time for the general public, a group of leading U.S. and international scientists said Monday.
>The conclusion in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet comes a week before the Biden administration says it plans to begin offering the shots to the general public.
>An FDA advisory group is meeting Friday to discuss the data to support the wide use of boosters.
https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673621020468.pdf
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/covid-booster-shots-data-shows-third-shots-not-appropriate-at-this-time-scientists-conclude.html
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>NOW REPEAT AFTER ME
>THE VACCINE IS SAFE
>THE VACCINE IS EFFECTIVE
>95%
>64%
>37%
>16%
>0%
>NOW TAKE THE BOOSTER.
>GOOD GOOD
>NOW REPEAT AFTER ME...
>THE VACCINE IS SAFE
>THE VACCINE IS EFFECTIVE
>THE VACCINE IS PERFECT
>95%
>64%
>37%
>16%
>0%
>IT BECAUSE THE NEW EPSILON VARIANT
>NOW TAKE THE BOOSTER.
>GOOD GOOD
>NOW REPEAT AFTER ME...
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/sfg/ - Spaceflight General

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Where It Has All Begun Edition
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Finnish space archive:
https://archive.org/details/finnish-translated-space-archive
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When are we building a Jupiter sky civilization? Give me your best concept art dump, we're going to make this a reality.
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Guys please, for the love of God, PLEASE listen to me

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I have solved the mystery of gravity and spacetime.
Spacetime is an incompressible fluid that flows into matter. As it does this, it transfers some of it's momentum to matter. You can think of that as a kind of "drag".
So spacetime is flowing extremely fast into Earth. As it does this, a little bit of it flows into us, which drags us downward in the direction that it's flowing (toward Earth).
Because spacetime is moving toward Earth, it is also true to say that by opposing spacetime, we are moving away from Earth at relativistic speeds.
How do I know that we moving so fast away from Earth?

The answer is time dilation. There are two kinds of time dilation (not really, but I'll get to that). Gravitational and kinetic time dilation are considered two different things, but they are actually the same.
The only thing that can cause time dilation is movement through spacetime. So it doesn't matter if you move through spacetime (kinetic) or spacetime moves through you (gravitational). They are essentially the same thing.

My last thread was largely ignored. If this thread gets ignored, I will wait one month before trying one last time.
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What is the evolutionary purpose of steatopygia?
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Does anyone have any experience interpreting test-negative approaches to vaccine effectiveness? Pic/link related. I feel like I'm losing my mind, or maybe I'm just a complete brainlet. Please note I'm not trying to deboonk any of this I just need help understanding.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e2.htm?s_cid=mm7037e2_w

I can understand how test-negative approaches have worked in principle in the past for people studying influenza vaccines: you have a large cohort of people who have been to a clinic or hospital for treatment for influenza-like illness (ILI). You test them all for influenza using pcr or w/e. Your positive test results are your cases and the negative test results are your controls. This works because a large number of people with ILI will test negative for influenza, as they are symptomatic for any other number of respiratory infections, so you end up with more controls than cases, and you can do some simple statistics based on the vaccination rates between your two groups and come up with some estimate of vaccine effectiveness.

What I cannot for the life of me understand is how this approach is being applied to covid-19 infections/vaccines, such as in table 1 from this recent CDC report.
They find that, of 6,960 unvaccinated people who were hospitalized for covid-19, 1,316 had a positive test result for the virus. Whereas of 7,676 unvaccinated people hospitalized for covid-19, only 235 had a positive test result. Which begs the question, if among these 14,636 combined total people hospitalized for covid, only 1,551 (10.5%) tested positive for the virus, what the fuck did the other 89.5% of people have if not covid? In the middle of a global pandemic with hundreds of thousands of people dying, among the people being hospitalized for presumed covid-19 infections, only 10 fucking percent actually test positive for the virus?
I know that I have to be reading this wrong but I don't know how. Someone please help?
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What are spectral bodies made of? What is the physics behind them phasing through solids?
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Geology

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Can anyone identify this crystal by sight? My friend asked me what it was but I don't know. This store sold a lot of quartz, amethyst, nephrite jade, and selenite if that helps.