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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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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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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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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This isn't complete perfection, this is simple terminology. It isn't random and using that word is wrong
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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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No idea why you're linking to that paper, but it has nothing to do with the discussion. Your methodology is not random, you made no attempt to randomize anything, thus the word random is wrong
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Nonsense. Balancing confounders is not the aim of randomization. I suspect you've misunderstood that paper as well as the word random
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