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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 Jul 29

      Never let it be said that I'm always negative - today's ivermectin trial was really excellent. It was so refreshing to read an RCT where I could not find a single error in the data

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 29

      Everyone wants to see it, so here we go: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.05.21249310v1 … Some quibbles with the methodology, but the actual data is numerically consistent as far as I can tell

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 29

      This is not a new study, it's just the ongoing drag of going over ivermectin studies looking for numeric inconsistencies in the data. This is literally the first one I've found where I can't find anything at all

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 29

          This study also is not definitive, and frankly proves nothing. The numbers are too small - it's just one of many! Don't take it as proof!

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 29

          The fact that this is the first RCT I've managed to find on ivermectin that doesn't have obvious numeric errors doesn't mean it's perfect, it just tells you how awful the literature is as a whole

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        2. 柔王丸‏ @Prototype963263 Jul 29
          Replying to @GidMK

          From my layman’s perspective this study tells me that ivermectin is better than taking nothing at all. So why stop people from taking it?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 29
          Replying to @Prototype963263

          This is one study, not the whole literature, and also doesn't really show a benefit (the placebo group got better more quickly, for example)

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        2. נדב איל Nadav Eyal‏Verified account @Nadav_Eyal Jul 29
          Replying to @GidMK

          Could you take a look at this d.blind, randomized study as well?https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2021.05.31.21258081v1 …

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 29
          Replying to @Nadav_Eyal

          Bad signs right off the bat - you cannot have 21.6% or 16.8% of 89. 19/88 is .216, and 15/89 is .169, so these are probably minor issues, but it's still not idealpic.twitter.com/2Hn82wnR6P

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        1. Alfred Flyer‏ @AlfredFlyer Jul 29
          Replying to @GidMK

          I noticed one of the commenters on the paper suggested that Fisher's Exact Test needed to be used for the mortality data which results in a p value of 0.119 and is thus not significant. Wondering if you concur.

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        2. theo‏ @theo_mazarakis Jul 29
          Replying to @GidMK

          The difference between studygroup/ placebo comes down to 4 deaths. Actually 3, since 1 in the placebo had inconclusive PCR-and all non-conclusive were included(?) (see Fig.1).

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        3. theo‏ @theo_mazarakis Jul 29
          Replying to @theo_mazarakis @GidMK

          Differences exist between the two groups in the medications administered. In such small numbers these need to be taken into account (see Table.3)

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