
Mark Moretti
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The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. nyti.ms/4dPdsTw








@thedarkhorsepod Timestamp 2:16:00 Pretty despicable behavior from @mtracey, I must say




WHO just classified every passenger and crew member aboard the MV Hondius as “high-risk contacts.” The criteria include shared meals, prolonged indoor interaction, shared bathrooms, caregiving, and being within ~2 meters for more than 15 minutes. On a cruise ship.





What exactly are the allegations, and what is the scandal? That a new VAERS analytic method, published in mid-2022 — one more prone to false positives (look at clear false positive events on its flagged list and think through how the method will naturally increase certain types of false positives ) and whose authors did not investigate its specificity or false positive rate — wasn’t used to identify safety signals in 2021? Before building an argument on a method, one should first demonstrate its statistical properties. And regardless, anyone familiar with VAERS and the broader vaccine safety monitoring ecosystem knows that VAERS — a passive reporting system with no control group and reporting biases of heterogeneous, unknown magnitude — cannot establish vaccine harm. What it can do is generate hypotheses: potential safety signals that then must be evaluated in active surveillance systems and in population- and health-system-level studies to determine whether the event is in fact at increased risk after vaccination. So why don’t those making these allegations look at such studies? Several of the events they claim “should have been flagged” have already been investigated in exactly that way. Here is a paper that walks through the various components of the U.S. vaccine safety monitoring system and offers concrete suggestions for improving both sensitivity and specificity in detecting, validating, and characterizing true vaccine harms: annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/new-white-pape…



















