[HN Gopher] Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy ___________________________________________________________________ Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy Author : type0 Score : 11 points Date : 2021-06-13 22:19 UTC (40 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (blogs.sciencemag.org) (TXT) w3m dump (blogs.sciencemag.org) | ggm wrote: | Nicely written. But, as predicted in the responses on the blog | the rebuttal is going to be "but I watched this video..." | | The basics here are very strong for me: run larger tests (which | btw, are still too small) and the numbers become at BEST | equivocal. Run small tests, you can get some "stunning" evidence | it works. | | Stunning, because 6/10 vs 5/10 is an apparent huge leap in | efficacy, when in fact, its a single flip in the margins. 6/10 is | probably 5.01/10 when you do it to 100+ test subjects. 60/100 vs | 40/100 would of course be more interesting, but the likelihood of | 6/10 converting to 60/100 is actually low: it was most likely a | single flip, not a statistical flip of a cohort. Thats what the | bigger studies appear to be telling us. | seventytwo wrote: | This entire debate is a red herring, considering many states | don't even have 30% first shot coverage yet. | | Get your damn shots, ffs. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-13 23:00 UTC)