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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 Mar 2

      Of course, the research letter that this is about, because it suggested that Swedish schoolchildren/teachers were totally safe from COVID-19, has been in dozens of news articles and has an Altmetric of 6,500 🙄

      2 replies 20 retweets 145 likes
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      It sounds like the only reasonable course of action for @NEJM at this point is to place a notification of concern on the paper and investigate themselves

      2 replies 20 retweets 156 likes
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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      I mean, seriously, based on that correspondence the lead author knew that schoolchildren had excess mortality of 68% (unless combined with preschool kids), but this is what they concludedpic.twitter.com/h7j3LK9pAv

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 2

      Oh, forgot to mention that this lead author was also an original signatory/author on the Great Barrington Declarationpic.twitter.com/WYp8a6tqAw

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3

      Health Nerd Retweeted Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own

      Reading the emails is incredibly stark. I cannot see any avenue but retracting this paper asaphttps://twitter.com/galinash/status/1367052448381210628?s=19 …

      Health Nerd added,

      Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galinash
      Ludvigsson om how kids don't get sick much. But wait, there is definitely something related to them dying more. Could be an accident but oops. This is in none of his papers... https://twitter.com/GostaBroholmer/status/1367050397932793858 … pic.twitter.com/9y1DCSF8Nf
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    6. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol Mar 3
      Replying to @GidMK

      The entire letter isn't translated there. This is the entire letter where I have added the last parts in the english translation. The respons from Ludvigsson in NEJM also claims that he actually did check the cause of death https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2101280?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article …pic.twitter.com/sz6qa1qAZ1

      6 replies 16 retweets 128 likes
    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3
      Replying to @JacobGudiol

      I'm not sure I understand what difference this makes. It's well-established that COVID-19 testing was low in Sweden at the time, no? At absolute minimum this was a one-sentence explanation that should've been in the original letter

      1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
    8. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol Mar 3
      Replying to @GidMK

      If you needed hospital care you were tested even from the start. When you think you find something in a subanalysis for your data, check it out and it turns out to be nothing. Would you include that in your published articles? Especially with the character limits of letters?

      2 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3
      Replying to @JacobGudiol

      I mean, they could've easily not published a research letter in NEJM, there are many other journals with longer limits. It's very pertinent information that they had on hand at the time, I can't see why it's not included especially given that the mortality for 1-16 yo is

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    10. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol Mar 3
      Replying to @GidMK

      If he had included it then he would also have had to include an explanation as to why the excess deaths are not due to covid-19 To me that is just a detour not giving anybody any useful information about the impact from covid-19

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3
      Replying to @JacobGudiol

      Nah that doesn't really make sense. It's clearly a pertinent point that is quite obviously important to the argument, spending a sentence or 2 (or even just using the supplementary materials) to explain would've been trivial

      11:32 AM - 3 Mar 2021
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK @JacobGudiol

          Also, part of the issue for me is that what is described in the email seems to be p-hacking. If you redo your analysis until you get the result you want, but don't publish this, it's not great

          2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
        3. Jacob Gudiol‏Verified account @JacobGudiol Mar 3
          Replying to @GidMK

          You can complain about the methodology. But the article you shared and the partial mail that you shared painted the picture of Ludwigsson finding the anomaly and then deciding to bury it Instead the mail shows that he started to investigate it to find a cause

          2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
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