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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

Sydney, New South Wales
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @MagnetsOh @CT_Bergstrom and

      Based on the description there it looks like a non-randomized trial with a very big potential for confounding by indication or other sources of bias. Need to see the whole trial!

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Dr Rob Whitehurst‏ @OYCar 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @MagnetsOh and

      If the signal had been this strong wouldn’t the Recovery trial have picked this up by now? Also the fact that it’s in the WSJ is something of a factor in encouraging scepticism.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Dave Blake, PhD‏ @_stah 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @OYCar @GidMK and

      1) I have not seen the Recovery trial on convalescent. 2) this trial postulates a strong dose-response relation which Recovery may not have been designed to pick up and 3) this trial is an early administration. It is from Mayo, details will be out, at some point.

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    5. Dr Rob Whitehurst‏ @OYCar 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @_stah @GidMK and

      Nobody has seen the Recovery results yet AFAIK. Which means with their protocol the results must be as yet not strong enough to call. Possibly the study differs significantly.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @OYCar @_stah and

      I don't think it's possible to conclude anything about efficacy from the information presented here. Could be entirely useless, we wouldn't know because the trial is basically not described at all!

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @MagnetsOh @OYCar and

      Wow. So if I'm reading correctly, they had the opportunity to run a decent trial on the subject, but instead chucked a Raoult and now we have no idea whether it works or not What a waste

      3:34 AM - 5 Aug 2020
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        1. Zach Hensel‏ @alchemytoday 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @MagnetsOh and

          I don't really get it... it's not as if the clinical trials weren't getting approved or that there was so much plasma available that it didn't matter. I saw one of the trials recently revised to reduce number of subjects so maybe that means they'll have results soon?

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        2. Dr Rob Whitehurst‏ @OYCar 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @MagnetsOh and

          That was my reading too. A complete fiasco.

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        3. Zach Hensel‏ @alchemytoday 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @OYCar @GidMK and

          I'd guess the WSJ anonymous researchers are same people behind the 5000 person safety study?

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