Given the fact SARS had a similar profile, this should be a reasonable assumption.

I’m not saying it’s at the same standard as being peer reviewed, though it’s more likely than not that the conclusions from this data will remain true based on both the data and the correlation.

> I’d be happy to change the title, though it is basically quoted from the article conclusion.

For future reference, Hacker News guidelines call for using the article's original title as the title of the submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (the moderators seem to have fixed this for you)