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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

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 8 Aug 2020

      23/n The discussion section is also, it must be said, a sight to behold They defend their decision to use the term "country-randomized controlled trial" despite CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES (countries deciding is by definition NOT RANDOM)pic.twitter.com/CVmzKGNCoc

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 8 Aug 2020

      24/n We already have a term for this kind of research - observational ecological study - so as I said, inventing a new term that is wrong is simply misleading. Just use the correct terminology if you're going to do something like this!

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 8 Aug 2020

      25/n If nothing else, the most basic additions that would make the website slightly less worthless would be - details of statistical analysis - measure of HCQ CONSUMPTION by country - deaths BY INFECTION as the outcome - control for other govt measures to prevent COVID-19

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 8 Aug 2020

      26/n Another point that's worth making - the authors say that HCQ is preventive of COVID-19 The methodology is not even vaguely close to what you'd need to know if that's true

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 8 Aug 2020

      27/n You'd want to see case numbers by day, along with every intervention (i.e. social distancing, school closures etc) and the day they were implemented for every country on the list Then, number of HCQ doses given by day AT AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 8 Aug 2020

      28/n Even if the authors make the suggested changes up until 25/n, they'd just end up with a meaningless correlation without measures like these, which are an enormous amount of work The thing about ecological studies is that the good ones take A LOT of time

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Aug 2020

      29/n Oh, another thing The authors keep maintaining on Twitter that this study was "random" because patients didn't choose what treatment they got, countries did This is absolute nonsense

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @c19analysis

      That's just a misunderstanding of the word random. Firstly, patients did choose within countries and secondly countries choosing is by definition not random. Random means no one chooses, it's that simple

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Aug 2020
      Replying to @c19analysis

      This isn't complete perfection, this is simple terminology. It isn't random and using that word is wrong 🤷‍♂️

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Aug 2020
          Replying to @c19analysis

          Nonsense. I have generated randomization schedules myself, it is not hard. You just need prospective enrollment and some method of randomization to make things random, your study simply doesn't do that. You are wrong to use to word, it's very simple

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