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The Oxford vaccine was approved here in Aus - finally:
https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/tga-provisionally-approves-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine
It recommends a second dosing 12 weeks apart. The article in the local paper announcing this said with a 12 week second dose it had 82% efficacy. This was the finding of the Lancet preprint:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3777268
Associate Professor in infectious diseases, Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah, from Monash University, has doubts about the paper (and after reading it the statistician in me does as well):
https://healthcareworkersaustralia.com/2021/02/11/backing-up-our-gains/
In the comments section of the story I posted this. There is all sorts of stuff that gets posted from the virus does not even exist, to it is just another flu, to antivaxer nonsense. They seem to be fine - but the article by a well qualified associate professor calling for caution on the findings of the preprint (which is exactly why you have preprint and peer review) was deemed not suitable - and my post removed. I had a chat to my sister about it and she said you are not a doctor - why are you commenting on it. She knows I have a degree in math including a significant amount of stats that I also used in my job on occasion. I said - I am concerned about the statistical validity of the study. She was not impressed and said - I do not want to talk about it and walked off.
It makes you wonder - it really does.
BTW I will be asking for the Oxford vaccine with the second dose 12 weeks apart since, while there is reasons to be cautious of the findings in the preprint, I see no harm in waiting 12 weeks.
Thanks
Bill
https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/tga-provisionally-approves-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine
It recommends a second dosing 12 weeks apart. The article in the local paper announcing this said with a 12 week second dose it had 82% efficacy. This was the finding of the Lancet preprint:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3777268
Associate Professor in infectious diseases, Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah, from Monash University, has doubts about the paper (and after reading it the statistician in me does as well):
https://healthcareworkersaustralia.com/2021/02/11/backing-up-our-gains/
In the comments section of the story I posted this. There is all sorts of stuff that gets posted from the virus does not even exist, to it is just another flu, to antivaxer nonsense. They seem to be fine - but the article by a well qualified associate professor calling for caution on the findings of the preprint (which is exactly why you have preprint and peer review) was deemed not suitable - and my post removed. I had a chat to my sister about it and she said you are not a doctor - why are you commenting on it. She knows I have a degree in math including a significant amount of stats that I also used in my job on occasion. I said - I am concerned about the statistical validity of the study. She was not impressed and said - I do not want to talk about it and walked off.
It makes you wonder - it really does.
BTW I will be asking for the Oxford vaccine with the second dose 12 weeks apart since, while there is reasons to be cautious of the findings in the preprint, I see no harm in waiting 12 weeks.
Thanks
Bill
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