4/n Skipping over the other methodological stuff (which was VERY similar), there is still a worry about publication bias in this newer review. Potentially an issue, hard to exclude as a problempic.twitter.com/Sa3NBfx5em
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15/n Indeed, the entirety of the ivermectin benefit across all of the literature appears to come down entirely to these two pretty low-quality pieces of researchpic.twitter.com/C5q5Kqtlwm
16/n Now look, take this all with a pinch of salt, rating of bias is an inherently subjective thing and I might not be right That being said, it is extremely concerning that all of the benefit seen for ivermectin seems to come from just 2 studies
17/n It is not a coincidence that out of the three (!) ivermectin meta-analyses to be published in the last 14 days, the two that included these studies found a benefit and the one that excluded Elgazzar did not
18/n In the absence of new evidence (this meta-analysis doesn't really count), I reckon that the only reasonable stance is that we don't really know if ivermectin works, and probably should not be using it outside of clinical trials 
The Naiee study control group: <50% were PCR positive 18% mortality rate No objective person would think this study is generalizable and should inform decision making
Hi! I'm a grad student that does research in qualitative software engineering, so statistics ain't really my forte. Would you mind linking me to a book/resource on how to "read" these graphs?
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