Favorites January 17th 2022
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Evidence once again that just giving just giving people money is an astonishingly beneficial policy.
All six were interesting to me, I was surprised how many movie ticket sales there were at the end of 2021. Also, my understanding is that the numbers for BART are similar or worse than the NYC subway situation.
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In service of this goal, hospitalization data by vaccination status for Virginia and Chile. Furthermore:
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This is absolutely something I was wondering about, this also made the study design clear, asking about specific symptoms.
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He continues with an analogy to the National Weather Service, which does hurricane prediction, despite the fact that they're relatively rare events.
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I hesitate to admit the amount of work I've put into competition projects to win a t-shirt.
Good to see it getting back closer to pre-pandemic levels, but it would always be nice to see it higher!
Unfortunately, it looks like we’re probably not getting any rain for the rest of the month.