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by Brybry 1656 days ago
This preprint also shows reduced antibody neutralization of omicron in comparison to delta (including for double vaccinated + previous infection).

Note the sample sizes for all these studies is small. 12 participants for the AHRI paper and 8 to 20 per group for this one.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.07.21267432v...

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Sample size doesn't really matter much in this kind of study.
Ideally you'd match it to some population of interest. For my own medical affairs, I don't care what grand-pappy's results are here, I want to know how cousin Tim fairs.
Why not? I’m no statistician, so my basic understanding is you should always prefer bigger sample sizes to ensure statistically significant findings.