Amazing to see folks in Norway using the power of randomization to test important questions
This should be the norm not the exception
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/health/coronavirus-gyms-fitness.html …
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A bit like trialling, say, homoeopathy against statins for MACE but running the trial in healthy 20yos. When you don't see a single event, conclude that homoeopathy works just as well!
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Norway should just send their researchers to Sweden.
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That is why non-pharmacological trials should be carried out in high transmission areas/countries ...the same as RCTs to assess vaccines Transmission rate should be another variable to consider before assuming external validity of trial results https://twitter.com/musicaypaz501/status/1276227918470012930?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Musicaypaz5011/status/1276227918470012930 …
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Agree; RCTs to assess non- pharm measures are very necessary... otherwise we are condemned to move forward blindly , trusting on beliefs, opinions and what seems “logical”, such in Middle Ages...but “more cool” https://twitter.com/musicaypaz501/status/1276212228094656513?s=21 … https://twitter.com/Musicaypaz5011/status/1276212228094656513 …pic.twitter.com/5bYLWplz57
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I think the study was a great idea and tests a meaningful question (that will matter to a lot more people than drug trials which, in a narrow way of thinking, only matter to people that end up hospitalized with COVID). As you note, undermined by low overall prevalence in area...
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...but that said, I would love to see the US mobilize studies like this for school re-openings, gym re-openings etc to answer the important day-to-day life questions like "Is it safe for me to go get a haircut again" or "When can we re-open the gym?"
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Thank you! From their own data, it appears that no one with the virus ever set foot in any of the gyms - how is the virus supposed to have spread? The faulty conclusions worry me, given the risk factors of gyms (heavy breathing, low circulation).
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