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This study in PLOS One is being reported (and used by a lot of people on twitter) as proving definitively that Vitamin D supplementation can treat COVID-19So, thought I'd do
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Something important - the NUMBER of studies supporting a position is completely meaningless if the QUALITY of those studies is low 49 bad studies are not as useful, from an
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It's been coming up a lot lately, so I thought I'd do a bit of a thread on CONVENIENCE SAMPLES and why they aren't great for assessing POPULATION PREVALENCE of
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I find this immensely frustratingThere is actually not really any evidence at all that serology surveys are 'flawed' or 'dramatically underestimate' how many people have had COVID-19Sigh This headline is
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This seems to be a very commonly misunderstood point, and while I explain in my blog post I thought I'd also do a tweetorial to explain:WHY MOST COVID-19 DEATHS ARE
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Since everyone's talking about herd immunity in the United States at the moment, I thought I'd quickly run some rough calculations of the number of deaths required to get to
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Your daily reminder that policies based on individual compliance are doomed to fail because people are people and none of us are compliant with anything 100% There are ~countless~ examplesEarlier
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A new study has come out that hit headlines everywhere arguing that there's no safe level of caffeine intake during pregnancyI think it's worth a bit of a peer-review on
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A systematic review/meta-analysis of honey vs other cough/cold remedies came out yesterday in BMJ Evidence-Based MedicineI think this is worth a quick peer review on twitter 1/n 2/n The review
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Ok, this has been bugging me since yesterday, so I thought I'd actually go through this new webpage that claims Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is effective for COVID-19 and review itHere goes
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Ok, so there's a lot to unpack here. This was a randomized controlled trial looking at the impacts of fasting on lying in lean and obese peopleHeadline finding - obese
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This is a really careful, interesting, and thoughtful analysis of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 and what works (i.e. masks, distancing etc) to control spreadA quick review thread 1/nhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20
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