This article originally appeared on Undark. On a sunny September morning in 2011, at a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta, virologist Ron Fouchier made an announcement that shook the ...
WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...
Purpose: To examine the features of available Framingham-based risk calculation tools and review their accuracy and feasibility in clinical practice. Data Sources: Medline, 1966-April 2003, and the ...
Making good choices requires skill at calculating likelihoods and risks. If a potentially bad outcome has a very small chance of occurring, then striving to avoid that outcome may not be worth it. If ...