Another negative story from a joke of a study within a day of good vaccine news......yet again.
A “study” (which is actually just a letter) of 34 patients - with that low of a power to the study, you can literally infer nothing (since just a very few individual findings can sway the final result).
This kind of shit would never had made into a publication in normal times, and certainly not a FYI letter rather than even a published study so that the specifics are not even made available but the political impact can be equal to a real study. It simply stirs the fear and hysteria, and it has become clear that the NEJM is not immune (ironic given the silly vignette “study” being discussed).
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to get their name out there is putting up their ridiculous crap rather than waiting for the full powered studies from the big boys. But to the ignorant public, it is taken as gospel if it follows their preferred political narrative.
Maybe this phenomenon is true, and maybe it’s not. But you cannot infer the answer to this in any way from this junk.