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		isbadawi on March 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big... The parent's point is about the metric of "death rate for severe cases", which is ambiguous depending on how you define severe. You could pick a definition of severe such that the death rate is 100%, but that wouldn't be super useful.

xiphias2 on March 4, 2020 [–]

The running trial gives the definitions, it's not ambigous as you wouldn't be able to run a Phase III trial without it.

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