Re:Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibo...
by mlyle on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:39AM
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Since you edited this in:
>Well, according to his github explanation[0] there was an attempt to account for that:
> "It is assumed that on the days following the vaccination, there is increased caution to avoid social encounters."
Yes. He fudges beta by 0.25, when it has values >3. Uhh..
Edit: unless you actually propose that the vaccine is increasing risk of infection beyond changes in behavior, there's clearly something very big methodologically wrong here. And even that can't explain the drastically different betas assumed between the hospitalization series and the infection series. (I mean, they're on OPPOSITE SIDES OF 1 AND FAR AWAY FROM IT)
>Well, according to his github explanation[0] there was an attempt to account for that:
> "It is assumed that on the days following the vaccination, there is increased caution to avoid social encounters."
Yes. He fudges beta by 0.25, when it has values >3. Uhh..
Edit: unless you actually propose that the vaccine is increasing risk of infection beyond changes in behavior, there's clearly something very big methodologically wrong here. And even that can't explain the drastically different betas assumed between the hospitalization series and the infection series. (I mean, they're on OPPOSITE SIDES OF 1 AND FAR AWAY FROM IT)