Covid Research Waste - Bin 3

How about spending some of the gazillions on harmonised studies, which can give us answers or narrow uncertainty on viral transmission?

When we updated our review of the evidence of pre and asymptomatic transmission of SARS CoV-2, our first search was carried out on 31 March 2021. This identified 145 possible studies for inclusion. Using our framework as a measure of the study design's reliability, we could discard all but 18, or 12.5% of the total. A year later, we updated the search, …