[HN Gopher] Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy
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       Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy
        
       Author : type0
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-06-13 22:19 UTC (40 minutes ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | Nicely written. But, as predicted in the responses on the blog
       | the rebuttal is going to be "but I watched this video..."
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
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       | Get your damn shots, ffs.
        
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