This! In Moderna RCT, 215/271 post-vax infections were asymptomatic. What are the chances those would get picked up in an observational study? Who would test for that? So it artificially shrinks denominator, making it seem as if little severity reduction.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2113017?query=featured_home …
-
-
…But my experience over the pandemic is that we don’t talk about it enough. Things keep going back to this: not paying attention to the whole life-cycle of the data generation. Before asking what the data says, the first question should be a deep examination of “why this data?”.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Did they use this in Israel's booster data? they were inoculating ~100k per day increasing the denominator, if absolute numbers of infections remained the same, it will still make the plot go down. Also, its taking that same 100k from 2-dose cohort shrinking their denominator
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I need a tshirt where one side says "you're on mute", and the other says what's the denominator". (I'm in tech, so it's millions of machines instead of millions of people, but same concept).
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.