Also This: “This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.”
Also This: “This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.”
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Party pooper! ;-)
Yes, the peer-reviewed published studies take a long time to come out. The pre-prints are very valuable for early info especially if others on the same subject reach similar findings.
On Monday, Scottish researchers released data from their vaccination campaign, including more than 1 million people who’ve been immunized, that suggests protection from a single dose peaks and then declines after about five weeks.
“One dose helped protect against hospitalization, with effectiveness peaking about five weeks after immunization at 84% effective at preventing hospitalization.”
“But the follow-up data available beyond that time is where it gets concerning. Effectiveness peaked and then began to decline, going from 84% effective in the fifth week to 61% effective the following week and then 58% beyond then.”
It’s unknown whether that trend would continue beyond that, as that’s all the data the researchers had available.
It means it has not been reviewed by other epidemiologists. Raw data which may be false