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by isbadawi 2290 days ago
The parent's point is about the metric of "death rate for severe cases", which is ambiguous depending on how you define severe. You could pick a definition of severe such that the death rate is 100%, but that wouldn't be super useful.
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The running trial gives the definitions, it's not ambigous as you wouldn't be able to run a Phase III trial without it.