Amazing I think this is a great (if fairly intuitive) concept, and I feel like this post might deserve more attention.
I think I do this quite a lot, but I haven’t seen this crystallised so well before. I think we should all be sanity checking all the time.
I did have to sanity check one of your sanity checks though. Some “Neglected diseases” (as defined by the WHO) actually affect lots of people. E.g. Shistosomiasis infects something like 340 million people and might cause something like 2 million DALYs a year, which is hardly chicken feed ;)
Also am honoured (sort of) that you included my analysis of OneDay Health in your examples haha
Amazing I think this is a great (if fairly intuitive) concept, and I feel like this post might deserve more attention.
I think I do this quite a lot, but I haven’t seen this crystallised so well before. I think we should all be sanity checking all the time.
I did have to sanity check one of your sanity checks though. Some “Neglected diseases” (as defined by the WHO) actually affect lots of people. E.g. Shistosomiasis infects something like 340 million people and might cause something like 2 million DALYs a year, which is hardly chicken feed ;)
Also am honoured (sort of) that you included my analysis of OneDay Health in your examples haha
Thanks Nick.
Yeah, I was thinking more like rare genetic diseases. Edited to say rare rather than neglected