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by nradov
1604 days ago
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The authors didn't "create a huge trial". This was just an observational study. While observational studies are less powerful than randomized controlled trials they're not necessarily bad science. Much of our current knowledge in other areas of medicine came from observational studies. While this study is rather weak and doesn't give us any really definitive results it is a useful data point that can be rolled into future meta analyses. |
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> Results: Of the 223,128 citizens of Itajaí considered for the study, a total of 159,561 subjects were included in the analysis: 113,845 (71.3%) regular ivermectin users and 45,716 (23.3%) non-users.
That reads to me like 160k people participated, and 113k optionally choose to take Ivermectin as prophylaxis.
Am I missing something ?