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> it was just found Don’t you think we should wait a bit before putting credence in these studies? Just a quick glance is enough to see plenty of potential fla
by shsoapsjsbs 3y ago
> it was just found
Don’t you think we should wait a bit before putting credence in these studies? Just a quick glance is enough to see plenty of potential flaws.
Jumping at the latest study isn’t much different than “just trust me bro”. These things take years if not decades to understand. We’ve been wrong far, far too often to keep repeating this behavior.
- yazzku 3y agoWhat flaws?
- gojomo 3y agoUnless you specifically infect a treatment group in an RCT, your 'recently had COVID' and 'no recently documented COVID' groups will vary in ways you're unlikely to be able to fully control-for, no matter how hard you try.
- gnicholas 3y agoGiven that by now pretty much everyone has had COVID, it would have been possible to design a study that ran long enough to capture a very large swath of the population. That would eliminate some of these confounders, but would be further complicated by the fact that different variants may have different effects. But I agree with your sentiment. The first study doesn't follow people at all, and the second study has a 13-question test. IMO this is very overblown — these studies do not give cause for alarm that would justify shutting down the world again.