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> 82.5 % of participants in the Intervention group survived COVID-19, compared to only 44.4 % in the Comparator group So the intervention with vitamin D3 slash
by erdewit 6y ago
> 82.5 % of participants in the Intervention group survived COVID-19, compared to only 44.4 % in the Comparator group
So the intervention with vitamin D3 slashes the death rate from 55.6% to 17.5%, that's by a factor of over 3, or simply put three times less dead people.
- scythe 6y agoEstimating the odds ratio is basically impossible with these data. The control group has just nine participants; you can get statistical significance with that (and they did) but the 95% CI gives you an OR of anywhere from 0.03-0.48 which is pretty much useless.
- spion 6y agoAccording to this small Spanish randomized controlled trial, it can be even better: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/