Monday, January 31, 2022

When you study a million things in a few people you’re going to find a lot of stuff and not all of it is real

 --- Steven Deeks, quoted in WSJ article The New Clues About Who Will Develop Long Covid by Sumathi Reddy, Jan. 31, 2022

In context

While promising, the findings in all of the studies need to be tested further in larger groups of people, says Steven Deeks, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who wasn’t involved in the studies and is heading a separate study on long Covid.

When you study a million things in a few people you’re going to find a lot of stuff and not all of it is real,” says Dr. Deeks.