Due to the age-stratified impact of this disease, efficacy calculations in relation to hospitalization, death and death 60 are perilously close to uninformative for anybody below the age of 40. Is excess mortality for males a function of worse adverse event profile for men re: these injections, the disparate impact [turning society into a prison] has on men; or a little bit of both?
Agreed in principle on the smaller sample sizes (and you can see that the numbers bounces around to zero so much for 0–17 that there's no signal at all there for death). However, I am morally convinced that the *trend* is meaningful, and the trend is fairly continuous decline, even in the younger age groups with small sample sizes, despite more noise in the signal in the younger groups.
As to the excess mortality thing, I'm so little knowledgeable on this topic that I'm not even going to speculate. I just think nine straight weeks of a fairly pronounced difference between men and women is significant and ought to be noted. It it carries on like this a few more weeks though, I might be enticed into theorizing after all!
Statistics AND jokes. Nice one, Abhijit :D
Due to the age-stratified impact of this disease, efficacy calculations in relation to hospitalization, death and death 60 are perilously close to uninformative for anybody below the age of 40. Is excess mortality for males a function of worse adverse event profile for men re: these injections, the disparate impact [turning society into a prison] has on men; or a little bit of both?
Agreed in principle on the smaller sample sizes (and you can see that the numbers bounces around to zero so much for 0–17 that there's no signal at all there for death). However, I am morally convinced that the *trend* is meaningful, and the trend is fairly continuous decline, even in the younger age groups with small sample sizes, despite more noise in the signal in the younger groups.
As to the excess mortality thing, I'm so little knowledgeable on this topic that I'm not even going to speculate. I just think nine straight weeks of a fairly pronounced difference between men and women is significant and ought to be noted. It it carries on like this a few more weeks though, I might be enticed into theorizing after all!