Commissioner, you have failed the American people. There are no randomized controlled clinical trial data supporting this EUA. You caved to political pressure from @realDonaldTrump. You have proven yourself unworthy to be @FDACommissioner. Resign.https://twitter.com/SteveFDA/status/1297642147945025536 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr. Stephen M. Hahn
This is utter nonsense. By making convalescent plasma available so widely, you’ve almost certainly guaranteed that these clinical trials will never accrue enough patients to answer the question of whether antibody therapy works against
#COVID19.https://twitter.com/SteveFDA/status/1297642151199809537 …David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
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Can I ask, it looks like this 35% number came from this statement: "Those who received transfusions within three days of diagnosis had a seven-day death rate of 8.7%, while patients who got plasma after four or more days had a mortality rate of 11.9%."
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Dr. Hahn said that if "100 people are sick with COVID-19, 35 would be saved". Isn't it more accurately something like "if 100 people who died after being treated with plasma after 4 or more days had instead been treated within 3 days, 35 wouldn't have died."?
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Replying to @kunstderfuge1 @gorskon
So maybe 3 people wouldn't have died. But this math is still wrong too. 35% of 11.9% is 4.2% and 11.9 - 4.2 = 7.7%
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Even as a relative survival benefit, it's only a 1-(8.7/11.9)=0.27 or 27% decreased chance of dying, relatively speaking. @SteveFDA can't do basic math interpreting clinical trial results. WTF is he doing running the @US_FDA?
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