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Do early-stage startups underestimate brand consistency?

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1•SRKDan•35s ago•1 comments

Jonathan Blow on work-life balance and working hard [video]

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1•within_will•5m ago•0 comments

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2•rapawel•6m ago•0 comments

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5•amarcheschi•12m ago•1 comments

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2•speckx•13m ago•1 comments

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10•dmarcos•41m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/denmark-close-wiping-out-leading-cancer-causing-hpv-strains-after-vaccine-roll-out
129•slu•2h ago

Comments

inglor_cz•52m ago
Good news.

Bad news is that many countries came close to wiping out measles et al. too, but it takes sustained effort to keep things like that.

giantg2•47m ago
Unlike the measles, HPV is not a good eradication candidate due to the existence of non-human reservoirs.
AnimalMuppet•42m ago
I think you said that backwards. HPV does not have non-human reservoirs, per Wikipedia. (Do you have evidence that it's wrong?)
giantg2•33m ago
Ah, looks like I might have read the paper wrong. It's theorized that some HPV strains could also be carried by non-human primates.
russdill•19m ago
Hence the "H"
chris_wot•33m ago
Amazing how badly the United States is regressing. Literally measles is making a comeback due to idiots like RFK.
inglor_cz•27m ago
This is now a global problem. The guy who started it, Andrew Wakefield, is British, and we have long had antivaxxers in Europe too.

Prior to Covid, the antivaxx scene was vaguely left-and-green oriented, biomoms, vegans and other "very natural" people; you would expect them to vote for Greens or even more alternative parties. This changed abruptly and now the antivaxx scene is mostly rightwing, but the common base is still the same distrust.

I wonder if this is the price we pay for radical informational transparency. Nowadays, democratic countries with reasonable freedom of press cannot really prevent their own fuckups from surfacing in the worst possible way. Some people react by complete rejection of anything that comes from "official" channels and become ripe for manipulation from other actors.

squigz•22m ago
> I wonder if this is the price we pay for radical informational transparency. Nowadays, democratic countries with reasonable freedom of press cannot really prevent their own fuckups from surfacing in the worst possible way. Some people react by complete rejection of anything that comes from "official" channels and become ripe for manipulation from other actors.

Such people have always existed, unfortunately. I don't think it's a result of anything particularly new.

inglor_cz•17m ago
The people existed, but a portable always-running conveyor belt of bad news that is addictive enough to make them glued to the screen did not.

In the 1990s, you had maybe 15 minutes a day on average to consume news, either from a paper newspaper, or from an evening TV relation. Now, quite a lot of people spend 20 times as much time doomscrolling. Of course the impact will be much more massive.

squigz•13m ago
Sure, but this implies the only source of "manipulation from other actors" is the news, media, or government. Churches, cults, and just other ignorant people existed to cause distrust in authority.
macintux•4m ago
Those organizations didn't have instantaneous global reach. Now everyone does.
_moof•10m ago
And even before the antivax nutters here went from fringe to a significant social force, HPV vaccines were already being decried for "promoting casual sex." Our culture is so broken in so many ways.
Fomite•7m ago
"Why haven't you cured cancer yet?"

"We have a vaccine to prevent some very serious cancers."

"But it might turn my daughter into a hussy."

blindriver•52m ago
The goal wasn't to eliminate the HPV strains, it was to decrease cervical cancer. Has Denmark encountered a drop in cervical cancer? If so, that's a great outcome!
sjsdaiuasgdia•47m ago
This seems to have some data that suggests they have seen a decline: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.35081

There's a chart about 2/3 down the page that shows a drop in several age groups, and a particularly striking drop in the 20-29 age group: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/fd3e820c-4610-4c4e...

justin66•35m ago
> The goal wasn't to eliminate the HPV strains

Those monsters. Don't they know those viruses have a right to live?

YeahThisIsMe•51m ago
And I can't get the shot in Germany because I'm "too old" and just assumed to be infected with it already, anyway.

What a great system.

n1b0m•42m ago
Can you pay for it?
bartman•39m ago
Generally yes. I asked my primary care physician and would have been able to get the vaccine dose from the pharmacy (paying for it myself) and she would have administered it.
riggsdk•20m ago
In Denmark you can. I was in my mid thirties when I went to my doctor to ask them to prescribe it. Before each shot I would go to the pharmacy and buy one dose and go to the doctor to have them administer it for me (if I wanted to). At that time I think it was free for teenage girls, now it's free for teenage boys as well.
Fomite•11m ago
The evolution of who gets HPV vaccines is really interesting. At first it was young women, as vaccinating young men had a very marginal decrease in cervical cancer rates via indirect protection (which itself is a function of how many young women are vaccinated). Then as HPV infection was linked to more cancers, vaccinating young men crossed the cost-effectiveness thresholds many governments use.

Vaccinating older populations is similarly just a less clear-cut case, but it's a cost-effectiveness argument, not one purely driven by if the vaccine offers protection.

everdrive•47m ago
Does the vaccine benefit you if you've already been infected?
giantg2•44m ago
I've heard of it being administered post exposure as a way to help the body fight the existing infection. Seemed a little odd when I first heard it as HPV should clear on it's own.
Fomite•28m ago
The key is you want it to clear as quickly as possible.
abirch•40m ago
There are multiple strains of HPV and most people haven't been infected with all of the strains.

from https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/by_th...

tialaramex•34m ago
In a sense no, hence the choice to vaccinate younger children who will mostly not be sexually active yet.

But because the modern versions of these vaccines cover many strains (initial vaccines were two, Denmark chose a 4 way vaccine, now a nine way) it's very possible that you get a meaningful benefit by being protected from say six strains your body has never seen, even though the three it has already seen wouldn't be prevented.

Fomite•27m ago
It should be noted that the decision to vaccinate younger children is a combination of disease prevention and cost, not just vaccine effectiveness.
Fomite•28m ago
Potentially, yes. HPV infections are cleared over time, and there are many strains of HPV.
NooneAtAll3•47m ago
Cervical cancer (uterus), not skin cancer from a bad papillomas as I thought after looking up what HPV meant
mitb6•37m ago
Also throat, mouth, tongue, anal and penile cancers.
perihelions•33m ago
RFK Jr. sure has a lot of eponyms!
pm90•37m ago
If you're living in the US: please consider getting the vaccine, ragardless of your age. It was covered by my (rather shitty) health insurance. It consists of just 2 (EDIT: 3 for adults!) doses. It is recommended for both Males and Females.
justin66•36m ago
> It consists of just 2 doses.

Wasn't it 3 doses before?

pm90•28m ago
you're right its 3, updated message
abeppu•33m ago
... did you finish the series? I think for adults it should be 3 doses. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/administration.html
comrade1234•24m ago
Any way to test for previous exposure? I'd be pretty surprised if I didn't already have antibodies. I suppose it doesn't matter though.
Obscurity4340•15m ago
Not sure but theres zero downside to getting it
tonfa•12m ago
Note that the modern vaccine covers 9 different strains.
toomuchtodo•7m ago
HPV tests are of low value (as an adult, if ever sexually active, you likely have it but can do nothing about it); a new biomarker test that can detect the cancers is being developed [1]. Ongoing cancer surveillance is all you can do once exposed without having been vaccinated.

As pm90 write, I strongly recommend getting vaccinated unless a doctor tells you otherwise, even if you already have it or had previous potential exposure.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jnci/advance-article-abstract/doi/1... | https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf249

(had three doses in my 30s via Planned Parenthood)

rtaylorgarlock•10m ago
And note i believe they just increased the recommended age of administration up to ~40yo? Throat cancer sucks. Get the vax.
slaw•4m ago
If you live outside of the US, you should get vaccine too. Even one dose is effective.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/the-power-of-a-single-dose...

perihelions•28m ago
By way of contrast, America's current top "doctor" is a conspiracy theorist who organized a class-action lawsuit against the HPV vaccine, on behalf of lunatics.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... ("Kennedy played key role in Gardasil vaccine case against Merck")

> "Details of the Gardasil litigation show how Kennedy took action beyond sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines in the court of public opinion and helped build a case against the pharmaceutical industry before judges and juries."

> "Kennedy, a longtime plaintiffs' lawyer, became involved in the Gardasil litigation in 2018 in collaboration with Robert Krakow, an attorney specializing in vaccine injury cases, Krakow said"

etchalon•23m ago
We have the first leaders.