I'm not sure I agree with the level of adjustment being a negative here. The point they are making is that have adjusted for confounders ie. considered other covariates (all those listed) and the results still show…
PhD student here. Aside from difficulty of accessing articles who don't have institutional access, it's significantly easier to obtain an article from sci-hub. Enter title or DOI - done. To get the same article using…
This might be the twitter thread you’re referring to? https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1486120144141123584
For systematic reviews there are one of two ways that I'm aware of: PROSPERO [1] and Cochrane[2]. Cochrane is slightly more rigorous for conducting a review of this type. Although you do declare what meta-analyses you…
You’re correct, no evidence at the time JCVI (joint committee for vaccination and immunisation) made the call. However the decision was made on best interests [1] from a public health perspective. Delaying to 12 weeks…
> No it wouldn't. One of the things that makes SARS-CoV-2 such a problem is that people get contagious long before they show symptoms. Similarly to for influenza and the common cold, many people get contagious without…
Agreed. It isn’t clear what the issue is here. If the research protocol states 3 years of data collection it’s technically unethical, without submitting an amendment, to collect data beyond 3 years as the patient hasn’t…
I'm not sure I agree with the level of adjustment being a negative here. The point they are making is that have adjusted for confounders ie. considered other covariates (all those listed) and the results still show…
PhD student here. Aside from difficulty of accessing articles who don't have institutional access, it's significantly easier to obtain an article from sci-hub. Enter title or DOI - done. To get the same article using…
This might be the twitter thread you’re referring to? https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1486120144141123584
For systematic reviews there are one of two ways that I'm aware of: PROSPERO [1] and Cochrane[2]. Cochrane is slightly more rigorous for conducting a review of this type. Although you do declare what meta-analyses you…
You’re correct, no evidence at the time JCVI (joint committee for vaccination and immunisation) made the call. However the decision was made on best interests [1] from a public health perspective. Delaying to 12 weeks…
> No it wouldn't. One of the things that makes SARS-CoV-2 such a problem is that people get contagious long before they show symptoms. Similarly to for influenza and the common cold, many people get contagious without…
Agreed. It isn’t clear what the issue is here. If the research protocol states 3 years of data collection it’s technically unethical, without submitting an amendment, to collect data beyond 3 years as the patient hasn’t…