Edward Nirenberg on Nostr: I've seen some people try to use this data to argue that this proves Novavax is ...
I've seen some people try to use this data to argue that this proves Novavax is better than Moderna at reducing viral load. It emphatically doesn't. Basic statistics here: the confidence intervals overlap with the point estimates. Differences are consistent with the effect of random chance alone.
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