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by aantix 1936 days ago
>People (extraordinarily healthy people) are suffering pulmonary embolism

What are the numbers?

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Where in that study does it show the the numbers for the pre-COVID healthy cohort?
I believe what you're asking about is covered in table 1 and figure 2.

They're reporting hazard ratios after propensity score matching with people who had the flu during the same time period.

Do you only care about people if an event is statistically significant?
For public health choices? Yes! 1 in a million events should not be optimized for.
This is not a 1 in a million event. There are studies like my comment above that back this statement whole heartedly. This is a virus with proven neuroinvasive potential that affects large swaths of otherwise incredibly healthy people.

You can't compare these supposed 1 in a million events to something like doing perf testing on a 64 node raspberry pi kubernetes cluster.