Engineer Who Attended RSA Cybersecurity Event Contracts Coronavirus (bloomberg.com) 62
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Two cybersecurity company employees who attended an annual industry conference last month in San Francisco have tested positive for the coronavirus. At least one is seriously ill with respiratory issues. One of the workers at Exabeam Inc. is a 45-year-old engineer who began experiencing symptoms when he returned home to Connecticut from California on Feb. 28 after attending the RSA cybersecurity conference, his wife said in an email. His condition deteriorated the following week and he was hospitalized in respiratory distress on March 6, she said. The man was placed into a medically induced coma and is now on a ventilator in "guarded condition."
The individual is predisposed for pneumonia due to an underlying heart condition, his wife said. Bloomberg is withholding the man's name to protect his privacy. The second person, who is unidentified, also worked at Exabeam and attended RSA, the Foster City, California-based company said Tuesday in a statement. "While we cannot confirm whether they contracted COVID-19 prior to, at or after the conference, if you came into contact with our staff, please be vigilant in monitoring yourself for symptoms," Exabeam said. The company said it instituted a work-at-home policy for its offices in Foster City and Atlanta.
The individual is predisposed for pneumonia due to an underlying heart condition, his wife said. Bloomberg is withholding the man's name to protect his privacy. The second person, who is unidentified, also worked at Exabeam and attended RSA, the Foster City, California-based company said Tuesday in a statement. "While we cannot confirm whether they contracted COVID-19 prior to, at or after the conference, if you came into contact with our staff, please be vigilant in monitoring yourself for symptoms," Exabeam said. The company said it instituted a work-at-home policy for its offices in Foster City and Atlanta.
Solution (Score:2, Informative)
STOP GOING to events for fuck's sake!
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but where else are we gonna meet romantic partners? On-line doesn't work because everbody's profile is doctored.
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oooooh wait, was that an Aids joke? Funny and Topical! +5
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Who the fuck voted this informative? A website that looks "Oh so official" on a paper that is an editorialized piece based on a Doctor (Robert Cathcart) who is considered to be a quack hung up on vitamins, and every actual peer reviewed paper submitted being rejected (hence all the fun with "oh so official looking websites).
This comment is literal garbage. You might as well rub fucking essential oils on you because that shit is based on the same amount of science that goes into this quack's research. I m
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This is the real IV vitamin C story, breaking out. Or some, like you, might die, of your ignorance.
Just because something doesn't have pretty paperwork does not me
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Just because something doesn't have pretty paperwork does not mean it cannot be real
I wonder sometimes if people like you actually read the things that you type. That pretty paperwork that you're pointing at is typically called proof. And yes, something can be real if we lack scientific proof of it, but what you are espousing is past that. The doctors and the groups you've cited have been shown to be quacks out for profit, not medicine. They want your money, not your health. That's been shown time and time again. Like I said, a three second Google shows that these people are shysters
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High doses = bad idea, regular vitamin D supplements can be very beneficial to your immune system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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To the arsehole who modded me down as off-topic, how is the immune system off-topic in a post about a virus, fucking idiot.
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Here's another one to mod down arsehole.
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It most certainly does. [wikipedia.org]
Dumb idea from the article: elbow bumps (Score:5, Insightful)
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No! There has to be a physical greeting action! But I agree that a bow is a bit much, unless of course you're meeting with a Japanese businessman.
So instead of that, how about a subtle head nodding while saying "Hello"?
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How about a kick in the nuts?
That is often the physical greeting action that is deserved
Too complicated. You'd need to work out who kicks whom first.
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As a side benefit, the Vulcan salute's "live long and prosper" message seems relevant with everyone panicking over COVID-19.
Re: Dumb idea from the article: elbow bumps (Score:2)
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Adopting a simple, short bow with no physical contact as the new standard for greeting would be an improvement.
Indeed. This is why no Asian countries have suffered a large outbre.... oh wait.
No I do understand the sentiment, but ultimately what you say doesn't go far enough. There is far more in hygiene involved than simply not shaking hands. Compare say South Korea where everyone bows, to Germany where absolutely everyone insists on shaking hands with everyone all the time even as you just pass people in the hallways. You'd expect the infection rates to be the reverse of what they are.
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I'm going to adopt the Spock "live long and prosper" gesture instead.
Except if people cough into their hand and then offer it to me to shake. Then they'll get another gesture entirely.
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This will be the breakthrough for home office (Score:2)
RNA Security Conference? (Score:2)
Engineer Who Attended RNA Cybersecurity Event Contracts Coronavirus
Ftfy.
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What's your point? Are you saying we shouldn't be concerned about it spreading because it only kills older or already sick people? Shouldn't they get to live too?
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You know what else is a "coronavirus"? SARS, the common cold etc.
Yes, but severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently the coronavirus.
I'm sure there are lots of people named Samuel L. Jackson, but when I tell you I saw Samuel L. Jackson in a movie, you know which one I'm talking about.
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Slahsdot - your new home of quack cures!
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Then you should know you used 'titrated' incorrectly.
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Then you should know you used 'titrated' incorrectly.
Then you should know you used 'titrated' incorrectly.
Then you should know you used 'titrated' incorrectly.
Ah, the would be grammer nazi. You don't know much about how IV vitamin is used, has been used, and can be used. I assume you object to the three or four times part as "titration". Each infusion can be titrated, and historically, was.
At lower "high doses", say 1 - 5 grams of vitamin C, it's not (usually) titrated. Marek's ICU use for HAT treatment of sespsis, he just gives you 1.5 grams 4x a day. At the larger the doses, the more likely IVC is titrated, making sure that one or various benefit level
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Titration requires a target value or condition. You gave none. For example, you can do an acid-base titration where you want the minimum change to cause an indicator to react. You can titrate doses to attain a specific concentration in blood. You might titrate to the maximum dose that doesn't cause an unpleasant side effect, etc. But all of those include a target state or condition. That is, a goal.
So what was the target for the titration? What was adjusted, concentration, total amount, infusion rate, WHAT?
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Yes, that's how Dunning-Kruger works.
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I don't want kidney stones (Score:2)
"A secondary outcome of the study indicated a potential safety concern with taking high levels of vitamin D. Although there were incidents in all three arms of the study, the investigators found that participants assigned to receive higher doses of daily vitamin D supplementation (4000 IU and 10,000 IU) over the three years were more likely to develop hypercalciuria (elevated levels of calcium in the urine), compared to those receiving a lower daily dose. Hypercalciuria is not uncommon in the general popula
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Of course you ignore, or don't understand, that I mentioned some necessary safety key
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See your specifically informed alternative MD or ND. We had an endocrinologist from UCSF, with 30+ yrs of clinical research on high dose vitamin D3, train our local internal medicine doctor too.
Alternative medicine and NDs aren't practicing medicine. They are an unregulated lot with an unspecific treatment methodology. Whatever your ailment, they purport to be able to treat it using whatever that ND is selling, whether that's using homeopathy, acupuncture, reflexology, enemas, herbs, or other methods dis-proven to have significant effects beyond placebo.
My wife took up to 80,000 iu a day, as part of a big package, for otherwise terminal cancer, for years. No chemo needed today. So see, you don't have to get stoned, if someone really understands better living through chemistry.
So your wife took vitamins in addition to medical treatments (e.g. chemotherapy), and attributed the success to the vitamins? It seems to me that
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We collected individual recommendations from many papers and doctors, not your around the corner doc in a box "standard" or even your major centers of excellence "standard". We considered doctors' advice from one of the world's most advance
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When regular medicine fails, fairly often in many areas, those that **are** biologically based can make a huge difference in QOL and survival.
Show me the data. Which alternative medicine treatment improves survival?
Ultimately it is up to the patient to wring performance out of all providers.
This sounds horrible. Why can't you just provide a quality standard of care, instead of putting the burden of experimentation on the person seeking help?
My wife's nutraceuticals enabled her to use less and milder chemo with much better results in comfort and inhibition, overcoming a series of hurdles that are typically expensive, nasty and absolute death. The chemo is a cheap generic not available in North America and scoffed at by Big Pharma types. Simply, none of her doctors have survivors like her. Nor with so few side effects.
It doesn't add up. Unless your wife had a grave deficiency in some vitamin or mineral, no rigorous research I could find shows that additional nutraceuticals are better than placebo. The effect of chermotherapy + nutraceuticals = chermotherapy, unless you have a rigorous study -- not a
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Wow vitamin quackery modded insightful on Slashdot. I'd say it's a new low, but then there are anti-vaxxers on here as well, so it's not quite a new low.
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Very unscientific since you can't put your hand on any real data about high dose IV vitamin C failing at simple/early acute viruses. Whereas, real people encounter man-eating pathogens and toxins, get IV C treatment, then walk away whole when they would normally be dead. IV vitamin C's claim to fame is a safe, general viricide, censored for decades. Lifetimes, if you think about it...
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You've been raised on a pervasive diet of antivitamin propaganda, so overwhelming that you still likely don't even understand the actual propositions - what problems are re
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The pages behind those links are quite messy. They seem to either link to individual studies, or test deficiency rather than mega-dosing. Convincing medical evidence means systematic reviews or meta-analyses containing double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trials.
Do you have any such links for mega-dosing vitamins?
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He's okay, though (Score:2)
He ran Malwarebytes on himself, updated with the latest signatures of course, and it nailed the virus.
Conference.. (Score:1)
Broadcast to people globally as needed. In HD, 4K
Weeks of news about wuflu was all over the net.
proof? (Score:1)
RSA conference? (Score:2)
Why do people still attend that? They are the modern day Crypto AG ... what the fuck?
take a look at the RSA trade show floor map (Score:2)
You can get a pdf of the south expo floor plan here:
https://www.rsaconference.com/... [rsaconference.com]
Exabeam booth was #555
So the adjacent booths may be part of the RSA coronavirus cluster:
Unisys, Thycotic, KnowBe4, Signal Sciences, Siemplify, were all within about 15 to 25 feet of the Exabeam booth.
Knowing whether the infection spread from that both is now just a waiting game.
Time for junkets to evolve. (Score:2)
They're fun want but they're not a survival need. The defects of online conferencing can be remedied easily IF there is enough incentive.
The main reason they've not been replaced is people enjoy them, but what people enjoy changes over time. Just as the industry facilitates safe cocooning by providing entertainment, it can evolve to reduce meat gatherings.
Holodecks are a long way off but a noble goal and we'll need something like them (including some sort of latency compensation) to communicate in space tra