I can read it now:
4000 participants in the study. 1,500 were removed from the study due to miscarriage or stillbirth. A further 2000 women were removed due to pregnancy complications or other illnesses. The remaining 500 babies were born healthy and showed no signs of autism or infertility in the six months we followed them for. 100% safe.
Pretty good but I doubt they'll even follow them for 6 months.
The article says they will follow them for six months for transfer of antibodies, so yeah they probably won't look at their overall health.
There are 2 ways to do the stats on clinical trials, one is "intent to treat" and the other is "per protocol". "intent to treat" preserves the original randomization and analyzes the participants as if they are still in that category, no matter what happens "per protocol" means you can change things around if shit doesn't go your way I'm guessing they did "per protocol" so they didn't have to include those 3,500 women that got removed
Oooh those are two new terms for me! In case it wasn't clear, I was joking based on reading other vaccine studies which are apparently all "per protocol"
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