Debbie BelairI was called Arrogant and cocky today because one follower said I criticize all the research on vaccine efficacy. I'm not a scientist but I know enough about research methods to know that new studies need to be observed with caution at first until they can be replicated and they must be peer-reviewed. Don't shoot the messenger. I would never tell anybody NOT to get the vaccine. With all the long covid, it's probably not enough at this point. After the dropping of masks the cases skyrocketed.
Paul Sochacki, MS@Scienceisnotopinions lolz... You're right, it's good to criticize all those studies. Many clinicians (nevermind lay people) reading these COVID research papers and preprints are really not very stats savvy, no clue about things like effect size, power, or statistical design. There is so much bad research out there once you start digging into the methodologies and the conclusions arrived at, it boggles the mind 😵💫
@RebelGeek99 My Stats Prof told our class on the first day that this is the most important class you will ever take. Maybe he was right.
@RebelGeek99 The main thing is that a study can be replicated to get similar results. I would drop masking if and when the results can be repeated that the vaccines prevent long COVID-19. The ones I've seen say that there is a *modest* amount of protection for people that had updated vaccines.
@Scienceisnotopinions that's why I started masking again in late summer 2021, right before the Delta variant evolved and started spreading. The only two metrics being tracked were death and hospitalization, all anyone heard about on the news was about death and hospitalization, exclusively. Then Omicron hit, SOTU and the midterms were coming up, and we rarely heard about COVID after that. We hear a little bit about Long COVID now, but not often and it's presented as "other people's" problem.