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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by xiphias2 on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:02PM (#24805033)
The solution to this is changing the stopping criterion in the trial protocol description, so that the real confidence interval can be calculated for the trial _with_ stopping (which is very different from running the trial until the end).
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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by jrumbut on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:14AM (#24807606)
Good point, I should have added prospectively to that.

But even then, more participants and more time for follow-ups is generally better all other things being equal (which they never are).

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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by xiphias2 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:24AM (#24808738)
Things got extremely political around these experiments.

When 2 days ago Orban announced from nothing that they will provide Remdesivir to everyone, I knew that again they did something stupid...I want the experimental drug that Trump got, not some leftover drug with lots of side effects.

Now I know that it was not Orban who was screwed, but the whole EU.

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