He's right, even though it would all be easier if Oxford/AZ hadn't made a dog's dinner of their trial. We are where are, so we need to proceed as he says, though I do think trying to c… (View Post)

The Times now has the actual data (reported in the Guardian blog) - the sample of over-65s was 341 taking the AZ vaccine and 319 controls. There was ONE Covid case in each group, meaning that we are … (View Post)

Apols if already published, but this report on real-world Israeli experience with the Pfizer vaccine (ex-Guardian blog) is heartening: Seems thoroughly persuasive. ------- One domestic healthcare pro… (View Post)

Der Spiegel (pretty mainstream magazine though with a bias to being anti whoever is in power) reporting the "maybe only give AZ to younger people" speculation too now - I don't think t… (View Post)

If the sample is small enough, then the 95% confidence interval is large - as we know from opinion polls. It could be true that the clinical trials had a very small number of people over 85 who contr… (View Post)