Headlines: vegetarian diets prevent severe COVID! Study: cross-sectional survey-based investigation of an online sample of healthcare workers shows some interesting associations The headlines are wildly silly 1/npic.twitter.com/MzXS7HUVey
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10/n Anyway, the headlines saying that vegetarian diets reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 are rather ridiculous. This study just can't prove that
11/n A better headline might be "middle-aged white doctors who report eating vegetarian diets at slightly reduced risk of reporting COVID-19 symptoms, study suggests" Not quite as impressive, perhaps, but a bit more accurate
12/n Oh, also, forgot to mention that the headline "73%" reduced risk is a relative risk, if you calculate the absolute risk difference for severe COVID-19 between the vegetarians and everyone else it works out to be about 4% so there's that too
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