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>1% of “serious events” sounds pretty bad? It’s somewhere on the order of COVID’s CFR? I'm not a doctor or a statistician, but at the risk of stating what migh
by perl4ever 5y ago
>1% of “serious events” sounds pretty bad? It’s somewhere on the order of COVID’s CFR?
I'm not a doctor or a statistician, but at the risk of stating what might be obvious - 1% chance of serious harm is much more tolerable with a medicine given to the sick as opposed to a vaccine given to everybody.
What the denominator is, is important.
- perl4ever 5y agoAt least two people were offended by the comment that 1% >> 1% of 1% ? Comparing to the CFR distinctly implies a scenario where Ivermectin is given to 100% of the population. Nobody's suggesting that...are they?
- rsynnott 5y agoThe CFR is the number of people who die of covid vs the number of people who get covid, so in a hypothetical where everyone who got covid was given ivermectin, yes, it's very relevant. > Nobody's suggesting that...are they? Some ivermectin enthusiasts do indeed suggest using it as a prophylactic drug.