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As specificagent1 said, it significantly reduces the risk of a serious case that might require hospitalisation, as well as reducing the rate of either symptomatic or asymptomatic mild cases. But you aren't entirely correct, the current data suggests that viral load is basically the same for...

I assume if it ever got to that, completing the HSC isn't necessarily the same as sitting the HSC external exams. For the majority of students, the external exams are either a formality or for determining the marks/ATAR. You're generally well on track for "completing the HSC" if you are sitting...

If they couldn't find a way to proctor a standardised HSC exam remotely, they'd have to find another method for aligning the internal results. That's why one of the proposals thrown around was just to have the English exam. But there could be other approaches like using some combination of a...

For what it's worth, this specific decision is being made by the NSW government and it is the federal election that is upcoming. But definitely, earlier in this outbreak the federal Liberal government supported Gladys in not locking down early and were critical of other state governments that...

No idea what's going to happen. I assume they are going to do whatever they can to get the HSC to go ahead as close to normal as possible. IMO it's well meaning but out of touch, given most universities and workplaces are online at the moment and it's unlikely to completely revert after the...

The minister for education will be at the 11am press conference today, so I would expect news on the HSC and/or schools today.

Look under "What are the symptoms of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome?" here: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/thrombosis-with-thrombocytopenia-syndrome-tts Apparently they are quite severe (e.g. very bad and persistent headache), and start 4-42 days after vaccination. If you mean, if...

The current COVID vaccines aren't supposed to provide sterilising immunity and weren't approved on that basis, just on their ability to stop serious infection and fatalities. Despite that, the mRNA vaccines in particular seem to have decent efficacy for preventing symptomatic/asymtopmatic cases.

I don't think it's a China problem. As Blit has mentioned, SinoVac and the other Chinese vaccines just haven't had very high efficacy. On the other hand, some other countries which don't have the China stigma have vaccines which have mostly been passed over by the west despite having promising...

Interesting, did you actually get a Pfizer booking and not get it? Officially the site is meant to block you from getting to the registration page if you aren't eligible, but I know people have bypassed that (sometimes by accident). I got AZ a few days ago too, had a headache + fever/tiredness...

Hopefully the bulk of it goes to retail workers, fast food workers, tradies, warehouse workers, truck drivers etc. that cant work from home. I don't think allocating by LGA alone is the way to go about it. I bet this won't be the last deal like this though.

FWIW, Novavax isn't expected to arrive until next year, long after the state government hopes to reduce restrictions. That's also not factoring in booking delays, the 3 week gap and that it takes time after being vaccinated for the vaccines to become effective.

Yeah, they are both mRNA vaccines. I believe Moderna has a much higher dosage of vaccine though (100mcg vs 30mcg), so more people report side effects but it might have a higher efficacy. Note that "side effects" is generally feeling lethargic or sore, nothing too bad usually.

Pfizer for the majority of people aged between 18-29 is like 6+ weeks off at the current rate. Bookings for 30-39 is meant to be opening up at the end of the month. I also wouldn't be surprised if 18-29 get access to Moderna instead at that point given that Pfizer is the only approved vaccine...

Yeah, understood, i'm just pointing out that many year 12 students put a lot of merit in those league tables, but they can be misleading.

Your preferences are fine, UNSW/USYD/UTS are all pretty good for engineering. But if UNSW is your top pick, and think that you would consider transferring if you missed out, I would prioritise USyd over UTS for your second option. You'll have less trouble with credit recognition going between...

These are Dr Chris Billington's graphs that get posted on reddit. You can find the graphs and methodology here: https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NSW.html

Not true, UTS offer 2 security related majors and multiple data/analysis related majors in addition to "Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics".

Yeah, I believe codecogs supports a pretty limited form of basic latex math commands so I wouldn't be surprised if certain features like this don't work here. There are alternatives to codecogs like MathJax and KaTeX, but I suspect the support will still be pretty basic. We've evaluated MathJax...

"Big Data" is a bit of a buzzword rather than a degree or profession, courses or roles in that area would be more along the lines of "data scientist", "business intelligence", "machine learning engineer" and possibly even "statistician". I would bundle some of those more in with engineering and...