8/n This means that the NNTV from this study is INHERENTLY MISLEADING unless you assume that vaccines will stop working entirely after the 6-week period (obviously false)
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19/n Now, neither of these metrics are necessarily useful in this way, and people will yell at me for doing this (rightly, it's a bit silly), but EVEN USING THIS FLAWED RUBRIC vaccines save 1,000x more lives than they cost
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20/n Anyway, this study is flawed in so many basic ways that it's pretty irretrievable. It should be retracted as soon as possible to avoid further damage
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21/n Another note, H/T to
@ScottinVictoria - the reviewer comments are pretty astonishing to read. Not even a mention of why NNTV is worthless in this context, and no argument about the manifestly wrong use of adverse event reports https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/693/review_report …Show this thread -
22/n Also worth pointing out that two members of the editorial board of the journal have resigned so far because of this terrible studyhttps://twitter.com/ProfKatieEwer/status/1409125241142513670?s=20 …
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23/n also as a couple of people have pointed out, this tweet is incorrect. I mixed up the ARR of disease prevention with death, in actuality the ARR would approach the death rate in the population x 0.84 - in most places this would be about 1 per 100/200https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1409293104063029252?s=19 …
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24/n Oh, and because it always comes up in these discussions, I've never been paid a cent by any pharmaceutical company, all of my funding is through the Australian state and federal governments, the only additional income I get is from writing locked posts on Medium
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25/n There is now an expression of concern published by the journal about the paperhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/705 …
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26/n An interesting point about this paper is that it's actually a perfect example of how peer-review can fail. The people who reviewed the article assumed that the stats and methodology were reasonable, and based on that assumption recommended that it be published
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27/n This is a prime example of what
@jamesheathers and I wrote about recently - the study got through peer review, may be retracted, but the damage has already very much been donehttps://www.statnews.com/2021/06/08/scientific-publishing-new-weapon-for-the-next-crisis-the-rapid-correction/ …Show this thread
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To help a novice—what’s the criterion for counting as a death following vaccination? Is it, as with a Covid death here in the UK, that someone dies within a certain number of days from vaccination? If not, what condition has to be met?
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