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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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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 10

    Health Nerd Retweeted Martin Landray

    Massive news. We knew recruitment had halted, but this is the first published work showing that convalescent plasma probably doesn't work for COVID-19https://twitter.com/MartinLandray/status/1369666410956419078 …

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    Martin Landray @MartinLandray
    RECOVERY Pre-print: Convalescent plasma does not improve survival in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in this randomised controlled trial involving 11,558 patients: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.09.21252736v1 … pic.twitter.com/sKR095n1PC
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 10

        I think convalescent plasma will end up being a chilling message for future pandemics about the importance of research. At this point, it's been given to 100,000s+ of patients, but we only just discovered that it's probably not beneficial

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 10

        Unlike hydroxychloroquine, which was always more political than scientific, CP was a good bet that people used because it was hopefully better than nothing

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      4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 10

        That being said, in the US ~alone~ it was given to 10,000s of people before a randomized trial was even started! This is a HUGE issue imo

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      5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 10

        RECOVERY is a shining gem of research brilliance, but the capacity to do a similar study exists in dozens of places. Why do we only have one? Why did we have to wait a year for CP results?

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      1. mex1pepsi‏ @james1chas3 Mar 10
        Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom

        Another scam by big plasma

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      1. Tara‏ @EndemicPrepared Mar 10
        Replying to @GidMK

        Wow

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      2. David J. Cohen, MD, MSc‏ @djc795 Mar 10
        Replying to @GidMK

        Yup- although there were definitely more than a few skeptics back in May/June when FDA gave EUA based on safety plus a “dose response curve” in the single arm Mayo Clinic study.

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      3. mike johansen‏ @mikejohansenmd Mar 10
        Replying to @djc795 @GidMK

        I’d go with “report” rather than study.

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      1. Toby Richards‏ @TobyRichardsUWA Mar 10
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        With >100M patient for a disease with unknown treatment <1 in10,000 in research

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      1. Dr. Shaun  💉 💉 😷 👨🏻‍⚕️ 🔬 🩸- Fully Vaxed‏ @flemsha Mar 10
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        It highlights how important well designed studies are and how much wasted opportunity there is by not having patients treated on clinical trials for diseases where adequate standard of care treatments are available. These trials are the shoulders of giants that let us see more.

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