I’m sorry, but this is really an awful phrasing. It suggests a 35% *absolute* risk reduction in a disease with a mortality risk nowhere near that high. Intentionally or not, this way overstates whatever benefits of CP (which are as yet unproven...) do exist.https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1297662384060981248 …
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What he probably means is of every 100 *deaths* from COVID, 35 could be prevented. Which, if true, would be fantastic news about the benefits of CP! But as many have noted there is presently no strong data proving this (yet)
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I'd be a bit harsher - the evidence as currently out there gives us absolutely no way to know if CP has any benefit at all
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