[conspire] When to get a covid test, brains, and a weird case, and a cardiology vs. immunology joke

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):

> Which, fwiw, was from *clinical observation on the floors*. Unless MRI
> machines magically have appeared in some alternate dimension in NYC.
> 
> EVERY covid paper out of China is derived from *clinical observation
> on the floors* because every patient, even asymptomatic, is
> hospitalized. They purpose built adjacent hospitals just for covid.

Yeah, you know, I _was_ having a difficult time understanding why the 
paper in _The Lancet_ was deemed other than 'supported by clinical
observation on the floors', just because it was based on medical-imaging
datasets.  I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt, assume Ruben's 
criterion involved the researchers writing the paper having been right
there in the ward, where the patients were -- and not arguing with that.

However, yeah, that requirement for a published paper avoiding being 
'a worthless peice of garbage in a crisis' doesn't appear to make sense, 
any way I look at it.  But I was picking and choosing what looked like
the biggest logic gaps, rather than trying to 'lint' everything just said.