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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^That is, this is specifically NOT to be "used to inform clinical practice." Thanks.[/quote]

That’s true of the vast majority of recent studies.   No one is saying this is gospel, and we aren’t clinicians.  We are discussing what this may portend if true on terns of infection and long term risk.  Precautionary principle is always based on limited info.  [/quote]

Fair enough, but then it should be discussed with explicit caveats, because a lot of preprint stuff never gets printed or gets markedly changed because of significant problems that come up on peer review.

Instead of sensible, thoughtful discussion, we get this:

[quote]You should catch up on your reading, neuroscientist….[/quote]

As I stated, I'm not the neuroscientist, but -- I suspect the neuroscientist isn't bringing the myriad preprint articles into discussion because they know better than to do that. That's not a problem with the neuroscientist.[/quote]

Neuroscientist PP here and yes, thank you. I got so annoyed with the selective quoting that I didn’t even get a chance to state this obvious fact. A lot can change during the peer review process. I guarantee the reviewers are going to tell the authors to tone down their conclusions about mild and symptomatic cases. They use just two out of the 44 patients  — 28 and 36  — to try to make this conclusion. Patient 28 was obese with some sort of pre-existing thromboembolic condition and patient 36 was a child with Dravet syndrome which is a pretty serious neurological condition. And the child was intubated! One of the comments on the preprint points out that this procedure can cause the virus to be spread to other organs via the bloodstream. We simply cannot make conclusions about healthy young(ish) vaccinated people who experience mild illness based on these findings. [/quote]

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