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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Replying to @VPrasadMDMPH
Good to do a study, but I think the findings of the study itself don't in any way support the conclusions. With no infections in either arm, all you can really conclude is that with no widespread viral spread no one gets infected
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Replying to @GidMK @VPrasadMDMPH
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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Since it's now fairly clear that this is going to be with us in the US for a long time, we need data to inform questions like this. I definitely think the conclusions drawn from that Norway study are limited, but I think we should be trying things like it.
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Replying to @ADAlthousePhD @VPrasadMDMPH
Agreed. Study was a great idea, we should be doing more of this. Still frustrating how it is being presented!
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Replying to @GidMK @VPrasadMDMPH
That, I agree with. News headlines that this conclusively proves no spread in a gym setting are not good. I think this study should be used as inspiration for how to do other similar studies as we wrestle with questions about safety of reopening (and comparing diff approaches)
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On the one hand, I feel for the authors - they did an impressive study that unfortunately (or fortunately?) didn't have enough events to prove anything. That being said, the conclusions in the preprint are wrong and this reporting is uncritically repeating them 
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