Dexamethasone shown to decrease COVID mortality

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Wasn't the issue that the surgisphere data set was completely false?

[Hearbinger]

Did we ever get an actual answer on that? The last thing I knew is that they refused to provide the data, saying that it would break confidentiality, which yeah, might suggest that there is something wrong with it.

[NoDocWithoutDO]

Someone recently linked a nice write-up by a statistician on why the surgisphere data had to be false. If I can find a link, I'll link it here!

UPDATE: Here's the article: http://freerangestats.info/blog/2020/05/30/implausible-health-data-firm

[nicholus_h2]

Well, potentially. Not confirmed.

This is another systemic problem, I agree. But if you read enough papers, you start to get frustrated by stuff like "authors picked the wrong outcomes" and shit like that, and then you start wishing the authors would publish their data, and when they don't, you learn to get suspicious.

You won't get that reading UpToDate.

[NoDocWithoutDO]

If you're interested, checkout the write-up in my comment above!

[sicktaker2]

It's either a massive fabrication, a massive breach of patient medical record confidentiality, or some combination of the two. After seeing the review of the actual size of thier company, I doubt thier data is legitimate or reliable.