Originally Posted by
theplayer
so people should not have been freaked out and gotten the vaccine before the review? That seems silly
Why? The RCTs documented that vaccine is safe and effective. Why would you value peer-reviewed RCT over not-peer-reviewed descriptive study? This actually seems silly. As someone who does stats for living I can assure you that w/o peer review I can massage the data to show that vaccines are good, bad, or have no effect even if the true causal effect is positive.