Controlling for exposure rates is the *basis* of a test-negative case control study. If exposure rates are not controlled, the study is not valid.
Agreed. A more specific diagnostic process is needed for high quality epidemiology studies.
The same study calculated *minus* 13% efficacy for two doses of AZ for the 20-24 year old group. (meaning vaccinated people more likely to get the...
Ouch, I just saw the UK news - 633 cases in one day which is more than the total of Omicron cases in the UK study I linked to.
Latest UK Omicron data. Note the very wide confidence intervals, the fact that protection is at it's peak ~2 weeks after a booster and possible...
We don't know. What I think you are asking is whether our existing vaccines (or prior infection) do lower the risk of severe outcomes - the...
"Breakthrough infections with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant despite booster dose of mRNA vaccine"...
Maybe not that low, but quite possibly lower than 50% efficacy against symptomatic infection - so a high rate of transmission to (and from)...
Pfizer is claiming oh, another regular booster and it's fine. But they're utilising a pseudovirus assay, not the real thing....
The first tweet of @JanineKimpel on Twitter. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm guessing a pre-print is forthcoming.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.07.21267432v1.full.pdf Abstract Objective To examine whether SARS-CoV-2 reinfection risk has...
In young healthy people maybe, but not in the most vulnerable. This what I worry most with the whole "Omicron isn't so bad, it's attending anger...
Similar results from: "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2 elicited neutralization and requires ACE2 for...
"Reduced Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant by Vaccine Sera and monoclonal antibodies"...
How did they control for the level of exposure 'dosage'? The abortive infection could be in part due to a lower quantity of virus exposure in the...
In the same way - the cells lining the heart get infected with the virus and subsequently get targeted by the immune system.
This is classic evidence of data-fishing. If they are writing multiple papers with multiple comparisons they have to statistically correct for the...
Which can be heavily biased due to the preconceptions of practitioners and researchers - case in point "CFS" research.
Yes, ME is still very much a UK/Ireland thing. It isn't used much in Australia either. Worse still, non-English speaking countries end up getting...
Bik has spotted hundreds of papers with manipulated images and other problems and should be a hero of people who want to improve the integrity of...
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