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This is sloppy, and completely lacking in rigor, most particularly about this claim: "Today we have more data, and you can see that there were similar number of
by chrisbrandow 5y ago
This is sloppy, and completely lacking in rigor, most particularly about this claim: "Today we have more data, and you can see that there were similar number of deaths in the vaccine and placebo groups."
I don't know if there is some way in which this is technically true, but it is simply not the case that the rates of death from Covid are similar between those with the vaccine and those without.
So sloppy, misleading analysis leading to dangerous conclusions == I am flagging this article.
- logicchains 5y ago>but it is simply not the case that the rates of death from Covid are similar between those with the vaccine and those without That's the whole point! What matters is not the number of covid deaths, it's the total number of deaths. If a treatment saves people from covid but kills them for other reasons, it's not an effective treatment. Overall excess mortality is what matters.