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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:17PM (#29124840)
Rules of thumb:

a) choose the later study

b) look at what happens in the real world (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29124652 )

And, If there is uncertainty (and there always is some small amount of it) then this does not support the parent commenter's strong and confident assertion that "do not, and never have" ... produced an effect.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by miked85 on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:35PM (#29127288)
a) we are in a small enough time frame that the latest doesn't mean it is more accurate

b) in the real world, we had our biggest outbreak after vaccines were mainstream

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday November 06, 2021 @08:41AM (#29129736)
> in the real world, we had our biggest outbreak after vaccines were mainstream

Is that supposed to be relevant? When "we had our biggest outbreak" there were/are still sufficient unvaccinated people to transmit an outbreak.

You're clearly defending a fixed point of view here. If you want detailed responses to learn from, stop asking for people to do them yet again and look for what already exists upthread. If you're having trouble finding it, start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29124446

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