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No. 3rd dose Pfizer is not statistically significantly worse than infection for myocarditis.


Am I missing something obvious?

Am I reading too much from the error bars in the Incidence Rate Ratio charts? Or did I misinterpret the charts some other way?


In the chart, the IRR from infection is 2.02, 95% CI 1.13-3.61. The IRR for 3rd dose Pfizer is 7.6, 95% CI 1.92-30.15.

Because the confidence interval of the Pfizer 3rd dose contains the datapoint for infection, there is a pretty good chance that the 3rd dose is not anymore likely to lead to myocarditis than COVID, and the result isn't statistically significant at p<=0.05. We can't say for sure.




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