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Big news yesterday was the announcement by UK scientists that the steroid dexamethasone reduced deaths in ventilated #covid19 patients by a third. It was the kind of good news we all sorely needed. A little thread after a night‘s rest (and story is here sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/c…)
First of all: Everyone wants to see full results. Announcing top-line results with no data, no publication to back it up is a huge problem and obviously not normal. Practically everyone I talked to pointed this out, @BhadeliaMD and @ashishkjha to name just two here.
I asked the investigators, of course. „There is this tension between having the final details and the final decimal points nailed down, and having what is actually a clear-cut and practical message in the public domain“, @MartinLandray told me.
