UKHSA, are you kidding me? 🤦♂️
The below is from Week 47 report. Embarrassing, seriously.
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For those readers for whom the problem of this reporting (with no qualifiers or adjustments made) does not jump out, a rough analogy is to say the following:
Of the people who drank gatorade during their marathon, 70% drank their 1st cup after completing 20 miles of the marathon
Only 1% of gatorade drinkers quit the race before completing 21 miles.
I’m sure some of my readers can improve the analogy.
This is not new. I remember last summer a similar paper written by the American CDC. The same trick.
Wow! Getting vaccinated protects against premature birth in the period PRIOR to when one actually receives the vaccine. I think this pretty much settles it and there's no need to try to rule out confounding variables.