A hugely important set of articles has appeared in the prestigious Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice recently. The Fung, Jones, and Doshi paper outlines statistical biases, such as the case counting window bias, that likely lead to the COVID vaccines’ effectiveness being exaggerated in observational studies. The subsequent
A practice started, incidentally, by Pasteur, who was keen to avoid having to explain the uptick in disease and death experienced immediately after administration of his miraculous vaccine. So he arbitrarily decided that he would accept no responsibility for adverse events in the 14 day period following vaccination and excluded them from his data. Plus ca change.....
A practice started, incidentally, by Pasteur, who was keen to avoid having to explain the uptick in disease and death experienced immediately after administration of his miraculous vaccine. So he arbitrarily decided that he would accept no responsibility for adverse events in the 14 day period following vaccination and excluded them from his data. Plus ca change.....