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Another medical doctor who rarely if ever read epidemiological literature before COVID-19 the literature and believes the elite-group think that somehow far more people have been infected than measured. The sensitivity of the serological tests is somewhere around 90%, meaning around 10% of...

On this topic, several groups are developing monoclonal antibodies (often treatments combining several), which may be brought to market at around the same time as vaccines.

I would have liked to see a scatter plot of hours worked vs change in hours worked, but alas this was not done. I mean it wasn't as if return to work was the primary outcome of the treatment. Oh wait, it was! Hmm...

I'm still trying to work it out. The diagram is suggesting lower ferric->ferrous conversion (STEAP3), it is implying lower uptake by TfR1 & DMT1, but no data for DMT1 or TfR1 was provided, so this lowered uptake is assumed to be due to imparied vesicle endocytosis. The last diagram implies lower...

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Impossible to say right now, because the medical authorities haven't bothered to keep track.

More candidate gene association junk. Unless the SNP is highly specific (100% of cases as in rare genetic diseases), I just don't care.

On the contrary to the authors claims, an unexpectedly low number (1.6% compared to population norms) of depression/anxiety was associated with an absence of caseness. In fact diagnoses in both groups were below Irish norms, agreeing with your hypothesis of participation bias...

This study is novel in that the active MRI tasks was the stroop test. The magnitude of the observed effect may suggest that this is a consequence, rather than a cause of the dysfunction in ME. Notably the T1w/T2w artifacts were noted to be in the opposite direction as observed in multiple...

As I posted on the SW thread, the incidence numbers were significantly lower than what we've seen from SARS-2 (or EBV for that matter). 227 reported cases for 113,979 influenza diagnoses (though only 13054 cases were laboratory-confirmed).

Yes, there is a total lack of clarity, or blurring of what is actually being measured. Fatigue usually means many different things when it comes to these questionnaires, but those who use them do not care about specificity. Similarly, the measures of "validity" are very superficial (and usually...

The "metacongition" stuff is merely speculation. The authors don't seem to understand, nor care about how peripheral efferents are directly coupled with central drive through the spinal column. No magical (meta) brain interaction is necessary (or likely). The authors are probably confused by...

Has anyone participated in one of these meetings? I'm curious about the level of engagement with the audience / interesting questions being asked?

Do you agree with these restrictions, including the curfew? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/victorias-latest-coronavirus-restrictions-explained/12516182 I suspect the surge in Victoria was due to non-compliance with existing restrictions, rather than a lack of restriction severity...

How does he know he had a cytokine storm when is cytokine levels weren't measured? He was also taking an IL-6 inhibitor, suggesting that something other than a cytokine storm was going on. Cytokine storms are not simply high levels of inflammation, they are a specific condition. So far...

The type where they ignore the wishes of the patient and insist their rigid plan has efficacy despite a lack of objective empirical evidence. Proposed interventions: Focusing on their hypothesised perpetuating factors:

It's like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientists Who was it who said the more symptoms a patient reports, the more likely psychological factors are involved in perpetuation of the illness?

I think they were already using the CFQ in their clinic and this is just a rushed study...

Depression/Anxiety was based on prior diagnoses or use of antidepressant medication. The real problem is that caseness was based on the aforementioned crap questionnaire. Notably, 86.6% of "Fatigued" participants did not have any prior depression/anxiety diagnoses, so this a weak predictor at...