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Can you provide citations for this (first sentence)? My understanding is that there were no deaths in the treatment arm of the trial. But deaths are much rarer
by nmca 6y ago
Can you provide citations for this (first sentence)? My understanding is that there were no deaths in the treatment arm of the trial. But deaths are much rarer than infections so naively our uncertainty on this effect should be much larger than uncertainty about 60% infection rate reduction. Secondly, even if true, does this mean full restrictions until all are vaccinated?
- oxfordmale 6y agohttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32661-1/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
- nmca 6y agoThanks - I re-read this. There was one death in the control arm, which was one of two severe cases (table 5). No statistical analysis is presented of those results (if they were significant under any straightforward model I suspect it would have been mentioned) I think it's too early to claim that there is strong evidence that the Oxford vaccine reduces cases of severe covid.