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Plausible long-term damage to the brain of a significant percentage of COVID patients, in both severe and non-severe cases—-according to a Lancet paper—should c
by nopinsight 6y ago
Plausible long-term damage to the brain of a significant percentage of COVID patients, in both severe and non-severe cases—-according to a Lancet paper—should change the QALY-based calculation by a great deal.
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- femto 6y agoPerhaps the cost-benefit analysis should also include improvements in the technology to develop vaccines as a benefit? There's a good chance that the injection of resources into the development of COVID-19 vaccines will put us in a better position to respond to the next pandemic.
- timr 6y agoThat is an incredibly bad paper. They have gone on a fishing expedition across dozens of algorithmically detected differences, barely adjusted their statistical significance thresholds to make up for the fact that they're searching for something that might be "significant", and even then, the best they can do is come up with...50% of people have something. A coin toss. This is the medical literature version of the xkcd green M&M comic: https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/