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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 04:45:29 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Cameron Watters (watters@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 04:49:29 JST Cameron Watters @thomasfuchs The "World Turtle" of whacky COVID-related beliefs.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 23:55:11 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @bhawthorne @jots A study like that with a lot of self-reporting and a very narrow demographic (mostly doctors) seems pretty useless to me because of the prevalence of vegans and vegetarians to think their diet is "better".
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Brian Hawthorne (bhawthorne@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 23:55:12 JST Brian Hawthorne @jots @thomasfuchs My initial reaction was, “Wow, that’s a lot of p-tests.” I figured the study was just another case of p-hacking. Then I looked at the size of their study and the size of their effects. It’s pretty convincing.
I would love to see a follow up to see whether this effect exists for PASC/LongCovid as well.
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Joe McDonald :vegan: (jots@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 23:55:14 JST Joe McDonald :vegan: @thomasfuchs you can still get it, but if you are on a plant based diet, your risk of severe covid goes down substantially:
After adjusting for important confounders, participants who reported following ‘plant-based diets’ and ‘plant-based diets or pescatarian diets’ had 73% (OR 0.27, 95% CI 0.10 to 0.81) and 59% (OR 0.41, 95% CI 0.17 to 0.99) lower odds of moderate-to-severe COVID-19 severity, respectively, compared with participants who did not follow these diets.
https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/4/1/257
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