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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Cochrane and COVID - How Did the Conversation Go?

Most people over any several month period are not infected with COVID. You need a really giant sample if you're going to detect any impact of any policy. So even in principle, if all the other problems were solved, the study in Denmark can only get the protective effect - which is very imprecisely suggests might be there.

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