12/n Could the results be explained by different wards having different admissions protocols? Potentially, but we are given no information to make this assessment at all
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23/n The same author group wrote another paper on the same patient population in January. Why was there no mention of this trial, or the MASSIVE mortality reduction anywhere? None of this is necessarily disqualifying, it's just really odd!pic.twitter.com/n6J8ihD9S3
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24/n I should specify that none of this makes the study totally sketchy, it's just all really weird and they are things that the authors should have explained in the paper
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25/n Overall, what we have is a study that, if run as specified, was a non-randomized prospective cohort study that gives us very little/no new information on vitamin D for COVID-19
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26/n This doesn't mean that you shouldn't take vitamin D, it's relatively low-cost and the harm is mostly to your wallet, but the jury is still out whether it will have any benefit at all to COVID-19
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27/n Update: the authors have confirmed that this was not a randomized trial on PubPeer. They are still using the word "random" in a very confusing way, but what is described here is not an RCT by any descriptionpic.twitter.com/epHN075OA7
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28/n And I wrote a piece about this trial and COVID-19 and vitamin D in generalhttps://gidmk.medium.com/vitamin-d-and-covid-19-an-update-59fb2f9cceb5 …
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Also, very interested in what you call people from Barcelona? Perhaps they can shed some light on that too.
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Lol I had no idea what the correct word should've been, I'm sure I got it wrong
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Not such a small hospital. Hospital del Mar is the main hospital for several districts in the old city, providing health services to a total of 300,000 people. April-May 2020 was peak pandemic period in Spain. Dexamethasone for severe COVID has been used in Spain since February
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According to Google and the study it has 400 beds, so I think that makes it 4-5th biggest in Barcelona? Big, but did it really have 8 dedicated COVID-19 wards on March 1st?
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