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How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

Medicine and the Machine

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COVID - Is There a Randomized Controlled Trial?

I'm from the same department as the Oxford Center for evidence based medicine. And I can confirm that there wasn't a lot of looking at the full range of evidence in favor of aerosol transmission. They just weren't because I was working with that group initially, and they didn't want to look at it. It's not bad science to speculate that that may have happened, just because it wasn't a controlled experiment. But how can we capture that in the randomized controlled trial design? We simply can't. What we can do is model it, or we can observe what happens in the real world.

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