I decided to delve into the "Vitamin D can cure COVID-19" articles to see what the fuss is about and this is WILD Blog forthcoming, but holy shit this is the worst argument I've seen in a very long timepic.twitter.com/UUIZzPtUTN
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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I decided to delve into the "Vitamin D can cure COVID-19" articles to see what the fuss is about and this is WILD Blog forthcoming, but holy shit this is the worst argument I've seen in a very long timepic.twitter.com/UUIZzPtUTN
Hey Mr. Nonsense - if you actually understood anything, you could gainfully comment on this
https://youtu.be/aXw3XqwSZFo
Sure thing. There's some correlative research, but it has very significant limitations. For example, in the Indonesian study the 'normal' Vit D group were much healthier in every way than either the insufficient or deficient groups, and a the statistical analysis barely...
...corrected for this at all. Importantly, age was apparently dichotomized, which is a very unfortunate choice. Generally speaking, what we've got is extremely preliminary evidence that there ~might~ be some sort of effect, but no hard data to support such a conclusion...
The likes of you are probably happy with the WHO correlative nonsense-fest which said meat causes cancer, with an associational risk ratio of 1.18. But when post-regression ratio hits >10 for D Status and Covid death probability, you screech. Get out and walk...
Always have to wonder at people who know so little of epidemiology and statistics that they think that a risk ratio is the only defining factor of a study's rigor or import
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