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In the apartment I lived last, my neighbors were giving their baby 6+ hours of screen time a day. I lived there from the baby being around 6mo-1.5 years. They would just put her in the high chair, and put the high chair maybe 3 feet from the tv and just play movies all day long. She would eat all her meals in front of it. By the time she could sit up on her own, she was totally addicted. She’d plop herself down right in front of the tv and was totally entranced. It was crazy to see.

Now she’s 4 and really struggling.

Does this account for people who had other complications that prevented them from receiving the vaccine?

Had to look it up myself.

132K excess deaths. That's 127 excess deaths per 100K.

I'm not sure how reliable the data is. While coming from a reliable source, https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)02796-3/fulltext, they themselves will have received it from the government of each country. I'm no expert, but I have been told that such data - like GDP - can't really be considered reliable.

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My aunt was diagnosed at 54 with two teenagers - it’s brutal. Thank you for what you do

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And 97% of preschool teachers and dental assistants are women. The point?

Fellow autist here.

I tend to turn off a song or restart it once the "bit I like" is over. I have to consciously stop myself from doing it when listening to music with other people.

I’m curious about the fact there’s no consideration given to COVID in light of the suspected neurodegenerative effects of the disease.

Hah. "Junk" science...

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Repetition also has a way of forcing the issue. It’s why radio played pop songs repeatedly. Eventually you’ll start to love it and then buy it (at least, prior to Spotify). We are pattern matching junkies.

When I worked at a club. Me and this girl would update the house playlist every other week with what’s coming out. We could always tell what would work within about 15 seconds of listening.

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women are more likely to be portrayed as plumbers than be the plumber showing up to your house

That is always the case because as you get older, one's immune system gets weaker and slower.

because women know better?

Does anyone know the percentage of women AI professionals in real life?

Yeah, this research didn’t cover the more interesting music out there or the ability people have to open their minds to new musical paradigms.

Well anytime you start an analysis in 1920 you should expect a lack of female scientists. It would have been unheard of 100 years ago

OPs title is the first sentence in the article. I guess we can blame OP for posting this particular article but good luck finding coverage of medical research that isn’t sensationalized to rake in clicks.

COVID-19 booster shots appear to benefit folks 50 and older but less so for younger people, a new study suggests.

For the study, researchers ran a statistical analysis using death rates from COVID, and looked at the vaccines' effectiveness in protecting people from dying of the disease. While they were found to be very effective among older people, the study noted that boosters made little difference in younger folks because they're least likely to die from the infection anyway.

Senior researcher Bernard Black is a law professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law in Chicago who specializes in health policy. He pointed out that the study only looked at deaths from COVID and did not consider infections the vaccine may have prevented or made less severe.

Still, for younger people the booster may be of less benefit, he suggested.

"There isn't evidence of a [death] benefit in younger people," Black said.

Although millions of Americans have gotten the initial doses of a COVID vaccine, only about 16% of those eligible for booster shots have gotten them, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older get the COVID vaccine and keep up with boosters.

With the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration poised to recommend yearly COVID shots, Black believes the message should be focused on folks in their 60s and older, for whom the protection against dying is greatest.

"We don't know enough to know whether to recommend an annual COVID shot below age 60," he said. "From everything I know, above a 60, sure; in your 50s, probably. Below that, I'd say we just don't know."

Maybe, Black said, if public health messaging said, "You are someone who really needs it," more people who really need the booster would get it.

https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/covid-boosters-benefit/2023/02/13/id/1108399/

I have a hard time understanding too. I lost my dog 8 months ago and it has been the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through. I cannot even imagine getting another and going through it again. People continue to ask if I’m getting another one like I can just replace my dog, it’s weird, stop asking people that.

Covid-19 causes inflamation, and can cause inflamation that damages blood vessels and the heart.